ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,817, issued on April 29, was assigned to The 13th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corp. (Shijiazhuang, China).

"Microwave heating cavity" was invented by Chunliang Xu (Shijiazhuang, China), Hongtao Wei (Shijiazhuang, China), Xiaoliang Li (Shijiazhuang, China), Tong Li (Shijiazhuang, China), Junkui Song (Shijiazhuang, China), Fei Zhang (Shijiazhuang, China) and Daomin Cai (Shijiazhuang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave heating cavity includes a metal shell, a heating sleeve, a dielectric medium, an antenna bracket, a ceramic rod and a metal wire. The metal shell is provided with a middle cavity ...