US Patent Issued to BSH Home Appliances, BSH Hausgerate on Nov. 4 for "System having discrete zone energy transmission utilizing heating element array and object occupancy and location sensing" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,604, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"System having discrete zone energy transmission utilizing heating element array and object occupancy and location sensing" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discrete zone energy transmission system is provided. The system includes an object treatment area, an array of energy transmission elements configured to direct energy toward predetermined zones in the treatment area, a sensor configured to detect a presence and a location of an object in the treatment area, and a co...