ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,101, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Heated food processor" was invented by Chizoba Brendan Uchendu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing system includes a food processing base, an attachment configurable with said food processing base, said attachment including a processing chamber, a heat distribution element for transferring heat to a fluid within said processing chamber, and a controller associated with the system. The controller is programmable to evaluate a plurality of successive changes in temperature of said heat distribution element, and a value of each tempe...