ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,258, issued on March 4, was assigned to Kenyon International Inc. (Clinton, Conn.).
"DC cooking appliance" was invented by Michael Reischmann (Eustis, Fla.) and Phillip Williams (Clinton, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DC powered cooking appliance which uses an induction or a resistance based DC heating element and excludes AC powered heating elements and preferably does not rely on directly connected combustion powered heating elements. Some embodiments include wattage of 1500 watts or less, voltages of 40 or 48 volts or more and are installed on a boat, van, rv or bus such that an inverter of that boat, van, rv or bus is no...