Patents by Inventor H. Alan Leukhardt, III

H. Alan Leukhardt, III has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for intelligent cooking process
    Patent number: 6252206
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a cooking apparatus operates a plurality of cooking energy sources with a control including switches that reduce the input manipulations required by a user in order to operate one or more of the cooking energy sources to complete a cooking operation. The control responds to a first selection of a particular food type from a predetermined catalog of food category listings, responds to a second selection for setting a time duration corresponding to an instructional cooking period or recipe, and operates in response to the first and second selectors for generating operating parameters for at least one first cooking source for a predetermined time and for at least one second cooking source for a second predetermined time over a time period of less than and bearing a predetermined relationship to the instructional cooking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: BSH Home Appliances Corporation
    Inventors: H. Alan Leukhardt, III, Dindo S. Uy, Cyral Martin Walsh