ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,756, issued on July 29, was assigned to Meyer Intellectual Properties Ltd. (British Virgin Islands).
"Cookware handle for housing electronic components" was invented by Jonathan A. Jenkins (Seattle), Brenden Duncombe-Smith (Seattle), Joshua Robert Buesseler (Seattle), Jedediah Joaquin McCann (Portland, Ore.) and Eva Poon (Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handle for a cookware device contains a power supply that is operative to energize one or more of a processor, transceiver and accelerometer, as well as a memory device. The processor is also connected to a one or more external leads that extend into the handle at least to ...