ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,059, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bridge Appliances Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Automated countertop egg cooker" was invented by Lance Lentini (Portsmouth, N.H.), Ivan Galic (Manchester, N.H.), Keller Waldron (Kensington, N.H.), Connor White (Portland, Maine) and Thomas M. O'Brien (Rochester, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are kitchen devices for cooking eggs using various cooking methods. For example, kitchen devices provided herein comprise a storage component configured to store a plurality of raw eggs, a cracking component configured receive a raw egg of the plurality of raw eggs from the storage component and cr...