ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,448, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Combination oven control interface" was invented by David Sager (Troy, Ohio), Fabrice Amari (Breuilpont, France), Hank Sawtelle (Portland, Ore.), Luc Buset (Poligny, France) and Pete Schellenbach (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination oven control interface includes a feature for an operator to select a setpoint temperature (T); and a feature for automatically selecting at least one humidity information (101) representative of a setpoint humidity level (H %) and of a cooking mode (M), the automatic selection taking into account the sele...