ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,518, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to June Life LLC (Palatine, Ill.).

"System and method for individual heating element control" was invented by Nikhil Bhogal (San Francisco), Ryan Perry (San Francisco), Matthew Van Horn (San Francisco), Nash Witkin (San Francisco) and Gabriel Risk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a method for individual heating element control can include: identifying food within a cook cavity of the cooking appliance, determining a set of cooking instructions associated with the food, the cooking instructions including a different model for each heating element subset, dynamically determ...