ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,024, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHE KITCHENWARE Co. LTD. (Cixi, China) and SICHUAN JIUCHUANG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Mianyang, China).

"Nonstick pan and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Qiang Cheng (Cixi, China), Cheng Fang (Cixi, China), Dechang Huang (Cixi, China) and Lin Li (Cixi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonstick pan includes a pan body, where an inner surface of the pan body is provided with protruding dots; the protruding dots include a central protruding dot and surrounding protruding dots; the central protruding dot is located at a center of the inner surface of the pan body and surr...