US Patent Issued to SEB on Jan. 27 for "Method and appliance for heating and/or cooking foods with steam" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,982, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SEB S.A. (France).

"Method and appliance for heating and/or cooking foods with steam" was invented by Nicolas Valance (Val Suzon, France) and Laurent Blond (Beaune, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cooking and/or heating foods includes the step of supplying steam expansion chamber including a deformable and/or mobile containment wall partially delimiting an enclosure configured for receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked. The steam expansion chamber is adjacent to the enclosure receiving foods to be heated and/or cooked."

The patent was filed on Aug. 5, 2020, under Applica...