ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,536, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the cooking apparatus" was invented by Jae Sung Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Jong Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Boo Keun Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Han Jun Sung (Seoul, South Korea), Joo-Young Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeong Su Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking apparatus includes a cooking chamber, a cooking plate having a visual representation distinguishing a plurality of areas on a top surface of the cooking plate, a plurality of heaters configur...