ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,996, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Cooktop appliance automated rice cooking" was invented by Eric Scott Johnson (Louisville, Ky.), Omar Santana (Louisville, Ky.) and Eugenio Gomez (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a cooktop appliance includes receiving a rice cooking mode initiation signal. The method also includes operating a heating element to provide a first target temperature at a utensil during a preheat stage and measuring the temperature at the utensil during the preheat stage. The method further includes exiting the preheat stage whe...