ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,732, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SEB S.A. (France).
"Electric cooking appliance" was invented by Geraldine Doat (Ecully, France) and Antonin Poupart (Ecully, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electric cooking appliance includes a cooking vat; a lid having a lid body and an inner lid including a fixed closure portion attached to the lid body and a movable closure portion that can be moved relative to the fixed closure portion between a raised configuration in which the fixed closure portion and the movable closure portion close the cooking vat, and a lowered configuration in which the fixed closure portion and the movab...