ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,254, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Active venting control system" was invented by Siddappa Yallappa Akkadi (Yadwad, India), Anna D'Angelo (Novara, Italy), Ankur Garg (Pune, India), Reshma Rishikesh Jadhav (Pune, India) and Suraj Narendra Kadam (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes an internal support defining a cooking cavity. An upper wrapper is disposed above the internal support. A separator plate is disposed adjacent to the upper wrapper. A venting channel is defined between the separator plate and the upper wrapper. A chimney is coupled to the inter...