US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 14 for "Heating cooking apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,535, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Heating cooking apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Kitaura (Sakai, Japan), Shinji Asami (Sakai, Japan), Masahiro Nishijima (Sakai, Japan), Hiromi Suenaga (Sakai, Japan), Masayuki Iwamoto (Sakai, Japan), Yu Shinohara (Sakai, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ootani (Sakai, Japan) and Kiyonori Nakamura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cooking apparatus includes a microwave supply unit (15), and a drawer portion (2). The microwave supply unit (15) is positioned below a heating cooking chamber (100A) and configured to supply microwaves (M) to the heating cooking ch...