ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,245, issued on July 29, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Digital gas valve burner control systems and methods" was invented by Richard W. Cowan (Louisville, Ky.) and Daniel J. Trice (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling digital gas valves of an appliance utilizing a configurable duty cycle that includes a configurable ON time, a configurable cycle period and one or more configurable burner power level variables. In some instances, the configurable duty cycle may be configured at least in part by operation of a control knob, and in some instances, multiple burner power levels...