US Patent Issued to BREVILLE USA on Sept. 16 for "Scales, such as for use with cooking appliances" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,523, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BREVILLE USA INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Scales, such as for use with cooking appliances" was invented by Alan Lee Viosca (Torrance, Calif.) and Matthew Morris Taylor (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scales for use with cooking appliances such as pressure cookers, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In several implementations, a scale includes load cells configured to detect a weight of a cooking appliance placed on the scale and any food therein. The scale can further include temperature sensors positioned proximate to corresponding ones of the load cells ...