ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,265, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking device" was invented by Seungyoun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jongho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngsoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking device including a frame that defines a cooking chamber, a burner cover provided in the frame to form a combustion chamber and includes an opening for flowing air, a burner provided inside the combustion chamber, and a barrier member provided between the burner cover and the frame in order to prevent heat of air discharged from the combustion chamber from being delivered to t...