ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,823, issued on July 15, was assigned to RATIONAL WITTENHEIM SAS (Wittenheim, France).

"System having a cooking device with a cooking chamber connected to an electrical grid and an energy storage device" was invented by Fabrice Schorr (Wittenheim, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including at least one cooking device having a connection for connecting the cooking device to a electrical grid and a connection for connecting the cooking device to an energy storage device, has a control unit which is set up to regulate a power draw from the electrical grid and/or from the energy storage device during operation of the at leas...