Patents by Inventor Laura J. Schroeder

Laura J. Schroeder 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).

  • Cooktop
    Publication number: 20120228282
    Abstract: An apparatus for a cooking system with a number of electrically-operated heating elements that each define a center, and a number of heating element power control circuits that each control power flow to a respective one of the heating elements. There is a cooktop surface member located above the heating elements and defining a top surface and a front edge. There are also a number of user interface elements visible from above the top surface of the cooktop surface member and spaced from the heating elements. One of each of the user interface elements is operatively associated with a respective one of the heating elements and used to control the heating element power control circuit for such heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Laura J. Schroeder, Raymond O. England, David W. Beverly, Alfred G. Giombetti
  • INDUCTION COOKWARE IDENTIFYING
    Publication number: 20100147832
    Abstract: An induction cooking system including one or more methods or apparatus for identifying items of cookware. The identifying may include identifying whether in use, the temperature of the outside surface of the element of cookware is significantly lower than the temperature of the inside surface. The methods may include one or more of measuring impedance, communicating information by RF radiation, or measuring reactance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Charles R. Barker, III, Carolyn E. Modiano, Adam Christopher Broders, Raymond O. England, Anthony G. Esposito, Thomas A. Froeschle, Alfred G. Giombetti, John Michael Kitchura, JR., Michael Nussbaum, Laura J. Schroeder
  • Displaying cooking-related information
    Patent number: 7554060
    Abstract: Among other things, light that carries information about cooking is directed in a first direction towards a redirection element and, at the redirection element, the light is redirected to be visible to a person cooking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventors: Raymond O. England, Barret Lippey, Deborah E. Rodgers, Laura J. Schroeder
  • DISPLAYING COOKING-RELATED INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20080099449
    Abstract: Among other things, light that carries information about cooking is directed in a first direction towards a redirection element and, at the redirection element, the light is redirected to be visible to a person cooking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Raymond O. England, Barret Lippey, Deborah E. Rodgers, Laura J. Schroeder