ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,444, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Induction heating apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Sihoon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Bada Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Wongyu Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller of the induction heating apparatus in one embodiment may determine an overlapped period of a resonance current value of a working coil and a driving voltage value of a switching element included in an inverter circuit. The overlapped period may denote a period for which the resonance current value and the driving voltage value ar...