ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,098, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Revolution Cooking LLC (Potomac, Md.).
"Cooking appliance employing radiative flux" was invented by Philip C. Carbone (North Reading, Mass.), Peter J. Loftus (Cambridge, Mass.), Karen R. Benedek (Winchester, Mass.) and James Poon (Woburn, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating assembly for a cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven. The heating assembly can have one or more elements arranged to emit radiation in a wavelength range of 0.75 to 10 microns with a radiative flux of at least 3,000 to 5,000 Watts/sq.cm at a distance of 10 cm from the plurality of heating elements, and/or t...