ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,836, issued on July 8, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Cooking devices, methods, and components thereof" was invented by Mai Iisaka (Woking, Great Britain), Kin Kit Christopher Wong (London), Matthew Takeshi Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Samuel Benjamin Baldry (Northhamptonshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking system is provided and includes a housing including an internal volume, the internal volume including an upper surface. A cooking container is removably positioned within the internal volume along an insertion axis, the cooking container having a cooking volume positioned the...