ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,355, issued on April 15, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Induction device" was invented by Pablo Jesus Hernandez Blasco (Saragossa, Spain), Ignacio Lope Moratilla (Saragossa, Spain), Paul Muresan (La Cartuja, Romania), Jose Manuel Palacios Gasos (Saragossa, Spain), Diego Puyal Puente (Saragossa, Spain) and Francisco Villuendas Lopez (Saragossa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction device includes an induction unit including a sensor unit which is arranged above the induction unit in a mounted position and includes a plurality of activity sensor elements arranged in a distributed manner and configured to det...