ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,443, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating device with improved interference noise elimination and output control functions" was invented by Dooyong Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Wook Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seungbok Ok (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae-Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction heating device includes a working coil and a resonance capacitor, an inverter that performs a switching operation to supply a resonance current to the working coil, a plurality of snubber capacitors electrically connected to the inverter, a direct current (...