ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,268, issued on March 18, was assigned to June Life LLC (San Francisco).

"Appliance with gaseous colloid management system and method of use" was invented by Nikhil Bhogal (San Francisco) and Matthew Van Horn (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including: during a colloid cooking period, cooking food using a gaseous colloid and sampling a cavity measurement. The method can optionally include transmitting the sampled measurements to a remote computing system; automatically cooking food according to adjusted colloid cooking parameters determined based on the measurement; and/or other processes."

The patent was filed...