ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,525, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUMMY INC. (San Francisco).

"Microwave oven" was invented by Artem G. Simonyants (Krasnodar, Russia), Evgeniy V. Pisarev (Krasnodar, Russia), Aleksey A. Kislun (Krasnodar, Russia), Artem V. Komissarov (Krasnodar, Russia), Danil A. Filatov (Krasnodar, Russia), Rinat R. Salikhov (Krasnodar, Russia), Sergey A. Rodionov (Krasnodar, Russia) and Oleg A. Galitskiy (Krasnodar, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave oven includes a cooking chamber, a working panel, a scanner that reads a bar or QR code from a food package, laser emitters located on the upper panel of the cooking chamber, inpu...