ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,182, issued on June 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Cooktop appliance with variable closed-loop controls" was invented by David William Billman (Louisville, Ky.) and Catherine Berghuis (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a cooktop appliance in a precision mode includes determining a starting temperature and a set of parameters of a closed-loop algorithm for operation of a heating element corresponding to the starting temperature. The method also includes inputting a user-determined set temperature and a current temperature measurement into the closed-loop cont...