ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,132, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Matching a cooking surface size to appropriate cookware and cooking appliance implementing the same" was invented by Omar Santana (Louisville, Ky.) and Catherine Berghuis (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooktop appliance includes a cooking surface including a plurality of burners; a control panel operably coupled to the cooking surface, the control panel including a plurality of controls for operating the plurality of burners; and a controller operably coupled to the cooking surface and the control panel. The controller is...