ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,202, issued on July 29, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Nano-cooling in solid-state cooking microwave ovens" was invented by Ermanno Buzzi (Varese, Italy) and Muhammad Khizar (St. Joseph, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetic cooking device includes a cavity in which a foodstuff is placed. A plurality of radio frequency feeds are configured to introduce electromagnetic radiation into the cavity for heating the foodstuff. A radio frequency signal generator is configured to generate a low power radio frequency signal where a high power amplifier is coupled to the radio frequency signal generat...