US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 25 for "Cooktop appliance with protected user detection" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,262, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Cooktop appliance with protected user detection" was invented by Jihwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Wonmyung Seo (Seongnam, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a cooktop appliance includes receiving an input at a user interface of the cooktop appliance and initiating a cooking operation of the cooktop appliance in response to the input. The method further includes determining, after initiating the cooking operation, whether a protected user is present at the cooktop appliance a...