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Article: South Korean Inventor Develops Microwave Oven Control Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 24, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- Yun-Bong Chun of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a microwave oven control method.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave oven, and method of controlling the same, stores a weight of food in an external memory of the microwave oven through a simple manipulation of pressing a hold key, and applies the stored weight of the food for calculation of a cooking time. The microwave oven of the present invention may perform cooking by calculating a cooking time based on the weight of the food temporarily stored in an internal memory even if a setting operation using the hold key is not performed. Further, the present invention is advantageous ...