Patents by Inventor Tracy Yu

Tracy Yu 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).

  • Automatic oven
    Patent number: 11767983
    Abstract: An automatic oven having a controller and a sensor assembly for automatically determining a food type for a food item placed in a cooking chamber of the automatic oven, and cooks the automatically determined food item according to a cooking profile selected based on the determined food type, while optionally accommodating a user input on the determining of the food type, and the cooking profile, including an optional degree of doneness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander L. Clayton, Vince Huang, Xiangxu Liu, Ken Lei, Hanks Hu, Juan Chen, Tracy Yu, Jack Li, Roy Qiu, Seth Herndon, Donald John Gilmore, Cristiano Vito Pastore, Dick Ge, Pallavi Manjrekar, Bruce M. Wiatrak, Andrea Ferrise, Blake Cartwright, Richard J. Hughes, Joel Fletty, Wyndham F. Gary, Jr., Joshua G. Abdoo, Collin A. Stipe, Nicholas Brenn, Casey L. McCuan, Christopher L. Carpenter
  • Automatic oven
    Patent number: 11047578
    Abstract: An automatic oven having a controller and a sensor assembly for automatically determining a food type for a food item placed in a cooking chamber of the automatic oven, and cooks the automatically determined food item according to a cooking profile selected based on the determined food type, while optionally accommodating a user input on the determining of the food type, and the cooking profile, including an optional degree of doneness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander L. Clayton, Vince Huang, Xiangxu Li, Ken Lei, Hanks Hu, Juan Chen, Tracy Yu, Jack Li, Roy Qiu, Seth Herndon, Donald John Gilmore, Cristiano Vito Pastore, Dick Ge, Pallavi Manjrekar, Bruce M. Wiatrak, Andrea Ferrise, Blake Cartwright, Richard J. Hughes, Joel Fletty, Wyndham F. Gary, Jr., Joshua G. Abdoo, Collin A. Stipe, Nicholas Brenn, Casey L. McCuan, Christopher L. Carpenter
  • Cooking appliance
    Patent number: 10912160
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a bottom plate and a turntable. The bottom plate defines an aperture that receives the turntable such that the turntable is flush-mounted with the bottom plate to provide a floor of a cooking cavity as substantially continuous. A rotary hub engages with an underside of the turntable to transmit rotational motion to the turntable from a motor. The turntable includes a first material and the bottom plate includes a second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Chen, Vince Huang, Shirley Mao, Roy Qiu, Tracy Yu
  • MOISTURE CONVECTION FOR MICROWAVE OVEN
    Publication number: 20200318834
    Abstract: A convection microwave oven (2) includes a moisture convection system (10) for providing moisture into the cooking cavity (6) of the microwave oven (2) to help keep heated and/or cooked items moist. The moisture convection system (10) includes a removable water tank (40) that provides water for the moisture convection system (10). The moisture convection system (10) includes a pump (42) that pumps water to a nozzle (46) that sprays water onto the convection heater (24) of the microwave oven (2) to create evaporate (E) that is moved into the cooking cavity (6) of the microwave oven (2) by the convection fan wheel (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vince Huang, Dick Ge, Tracy Yu
  • COOKING APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20200029402
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a bottom plate and a turntable. The bottom plate defines an aperture that receives the turntable such that the turntable is flush-mounted with the bottom plate to provide a floor of a cooking cavity as substantially continuous. A rotary hub engages with an underside of the turntable to transmit rotational motion to the turntable from a motor. The turntable includes a first material and the bottom plate includes a second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan Chen, Vince Huang, Shirley Mao, Roy Qiu, Tracy Yu
  • Air-fry basket
    Patent number: D1045503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: ShaoYing Nong, Charlene Yang, Tracy Yu