ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,824, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CONAIR LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"Dual door oven" was invented by Kin Man Lai (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a housing having an internal compartment, a divider positionable within the internal compartment for dividing the internal compartment into a first oven cavity and a second oven cavity, a first heating element configured to heat the first oven cavity, and a second element configured to heat the second oven cavity. The divider is at least one of retractable and/or removable."

The patent was filed on April 1, 2022, under Application No. 17/711,296.

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