ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,484, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating device providing improved user experience and user interface" was invented by Hyeonna Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Mijin Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction heating device includes a case, working coils, a cover plate coupled to the case, an input interface buried into the cover plate and configured to receive a touch input from a user, a first control module configured to sense which working coil has an object to be heated, and a second control module configured to receive position information of the ob...