US Patent Issued to Sharp on June 17 for "Heating cooking apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,934, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Heating cooking apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Ootani (Sakai, Japan) and Masahiro Nishijima (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking chamber, a pull-out portion, and a placement member. The pull-out portion is configured to be pulled out from the heating cooking chamber in a first direction. The placement member is placed on the pull-out portion. The placement member includes a placement portion and a pair of protrusion portions. The pair of protrusion portions protrudes from the placement portion in a s...