ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,429, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rational AG (Landsberg am Lech, Germany).

"Method for visualizing programs and a cooking device using same" was invented by Judith Kling (Landsberg am Lech, Germany) and Tanja Agapkin (Landsberg am Lech, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking device including a processor for executing a method and the method for displaying one or more cooking programs corresponding to cooking one or more foods includes displaying a virtual token board including a time scale which provides time information indicating a time when the one or more foods are cooking or will be cooked, and a space scale whi...