US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 23 for "Transparent metal coatings for camera pane in microwave oven" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,135, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Transparent metal coatings for camera pane in microwave oven" was invented by Junxiu Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zhiying Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Lian Qiang Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating appliance, such as a microwave oven, includes a housing having interior walls with interior surfaces defining a cooking chamber for heating food. The heating appliance also includes a camera positioned within the housing to capture images of food in the chamber, and a shield positioned between the camera and the food. The shield has a body...