US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 11 for "Cooking apparatus capable of detecting temperature of object to be heated" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,759, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus capable of detecting temperature of object to be heated" was invented by Dooyong Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Seungbok Ok (Seoul, South Korea), Kyunghoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Byeongwook Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking apparatus includes: a working coil, an inverter including a plurality of switching elements and configured to apply, by operating the plurality of switching elements, a resonant current of a predetermined frequency to the working coil, a phase detector configured to detect a phase...