ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,965, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Home appliance and cooking appliance" was invented by Duckjin Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yujeub Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namju Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunggyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home appliance includes a case having a first seating portion and a second seating portion, a first coil arranged in the first seating portion and configured to generate induced current to the first seating portion, a second coil arranged in the second seating portion and configured to generate induced curren...