US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on July 15 for "Microwave oven with integrated lower surface heating plate" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,806, issued on July 15, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Microwave oven with integrated lower surface heating plate" was invented by Hanks Hu (Shenzhen, China), Ping Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ryan Li (Shenzhen, China), Shirley Mao (Shenzhen, China), Tingting Yu (Shenzhen, China) and Muhammad Khizar (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave oven includes a housing defining an interior cavity, a magnetron positioned within the housing and outside of the interior cavity and a micro-wave antenna in electrical communication with the magnetron and positioned adjacent a lower surface of the interior c...