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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald W Pettibone, Cupertino, CA (US);
John W O'Neal, Burlingame, CA (US);
Gay L Winterringer, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Quadlux, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ; A21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219411 ; 219413 ; 219486 ; 219494 ; 99333 ;
Abstract
A lightwave cooking oven method and apparatus are disclosed wherein a thermistor determines an elevation temperature at a given location on the oven where oven secondary heating has a relation to the cooking time of the food and periodically reducing the power to lamps substantially midway during the normal cooking time at the beginning of which the elevated temperature was determined for a given recipe. The power can be reduced by being turned off or lowered.