ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,606, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Bada Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), John Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Wongyu Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction heating apparatus according to one embodiment includes a working coil disposed in a position corresponding to a heating zone, an inverter circuit that includes a plurality of switching elements and supplies current to the working coil, a driving circuit that supplies a switching signal to each of the switching elements included in the...