ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,079, issued on June 3, was assigned to Electrolux Appliances Aktibolag (Stockholm).
"Household cooking hob" was invented by Alex Viroli (Forli, Italy) and Laurent Jeanneteau (Compiegne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a household cooking hob, particularly to an induction heating hob comprising a cooking surface (2) and a heating power transferring element, particularly an inductor or induction coil (3) preferably provided below the cooking surface (2), wherein at least two sensor elements (4) are distributed in an area covered by the heating power transferring element (3), the sensor elements (4) being c...