ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,765, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to IB APPLIANCES US HOLDINGS LLC (Chicago).

"Mixing apparatus, mixing machine and cooking utensil" was invented by Yude Han (Zhejiang, China), Yi Qin (Ottawa) and Jiwei Wang (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application is a mixing apparatus, mixing machine, and cooking utensil. A mixing apparatus that can be fitted to an electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly is able to drive the mixing apparatus to rotate for mixing food ingredients. The mixing apparatus comprises a connection part, stirring rods extended from the connection part and s...