ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,391, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Wongyu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Bada Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sihoon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an induction heating apparatus and a method for controlling the same. In one embodiment, when a power level of a heating zone is input, a noise suppressing operation may be performed to suppress initial driving noise that might occur before a frequency for heating a container. A controller of the induction he...