ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,060, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Jinho Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woojoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongmyeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Juhyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sooncheol Kweon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber, a camera configured to photograph inside of the cooking chamber, a communication interface, a memory configured to store a cooking method, and a processor configured to, based on food being selected, drive the cookin...