ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,107, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to June Life LLC (San Francisco).

"Thermal management system and method for a connected oven" was invented by Nikhil Bhogal (San Francisco), Matthew Van Horn (San Francisco), Mathias Watson Schmidt (San Francisco), Drew Atkinson (San Francisco) and Gabriel Risk (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connected oven includes a cooking cavity defined by a back, a door opposing the bottom, a top adjacent the back and door, a bottom opposing the top, and opposing sidewalls adjacent the remainder of the walls, a user interface unit configured to receive instructions from the user, a sensor, a...