ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,682, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus" was invented by Jiho Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eonjoong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inki Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunggee Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber and, being open in a first direction, a shelf insertable into the cooking chamber in the first direction and including a container, and a magnetron to generate a high frequency to be supplied to the shelf, wherein the shelf includes a h...