US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 18 for "Cooking apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,478, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus" was invented by Eui Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Yangkyeong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunwook Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cooking apparatus having a heating module capable of moving in a two-dimensional space and, particularly, to a cooking apparatus comprising: an upper plate configured to support a cooking vessel, a heating module disposed movably in a space provided under the upper plate and included a coil, and a rail disposed under the heating module to guid...