ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,608, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Combined inductor shielding system" was invented by Fabiano Chinazzo (Cassinetta, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive cooking combined shield configured to be arranged below a cooking coil winding may include a plurality of ferrite bars and a plurality of elements made of a second material alternatively arranged in a plane so that to create a complementary electromagnetic shielding that extends from the center of the coil to the perimeter and has a modular structure that allows to block and/or to mitigate undesired macro eddy currents generat...