ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,931, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies Inc. (Osseo, Minn.).
"Latent heat toaster control" was invented by Steven Shei (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Benjamin Slotarski (Palatine, Ill.), Nicholas R. Mandarino (Aurora, Ill.) and Jason Pittenger (DeKalb, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a latent heat controlled toaster and process of toasting, the toaster includes at least one heating element. A controller receives electrical measurements including at least one of a voltage or a current and calculates a power delivered to the at least one heating element. The controller iteratively accumulates a system energy...