ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,533, issued on July 8, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp..
"Tunable nanowires blended rapid heating plate" was invented by Muhammad Khizar (St. Joseph, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave heating appliance includes a housing having interior walls with interior surfaces defining a cooking chamber for heating food, a microwave heating source configured to generate microwave radiation for heating the food, and a rapid heating plate disposed in the cooking chamber. The rapid heating plate includes a substrate having a hybrid coating disposed on thereon, with the hybrid coating configured to generate heat upon application of a ma...