ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,119, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Heating cooker" was invented by Naoya Taniguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Gantetsu Matsui (Kyoto, Japan) and Kiyoshi Nakashita (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cooker of the present disclosure includes a heating chamber for accommodating a heating target; a heating unit; a control unit; a detection unit; an illumination unit; an image-capturing unit; a recognition processing unit; and a notification unit. The heating unit heats a heating target. The control unit controls heating by the heating unit. The detection u...