ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,967, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).
"Heating cooking apparatus" was invented by Rika Nozawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yu Kamata (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to prevent a no-load operation. In a heating cooking apparatus (1) of the present invention, after a determination unit (22a) determines that no food product is present in a heating chamber (13), a reading control unit (22c) causes the reading device (16) to stop a reading operation for a predetermined time, or cancels, for a predetermined time, an information code read by the reading device (16)."
The patent was filed on June...