Inventors:
Carolyn E. Modiano - Bethesda MD, US
Adam Christopher Broders - Bolton MA, US
Raymond O. England - Stow MA, US
Anthony G. Esposito - Ashland MA, US
Thomas A. Froeschle - Southborough MA, US
Alfred G. Giombetti - Ashland MA, US
Michael Nussbaum - Newton MA, US
Laura J. Schroeder - Southborough MA, US
International Classification:
H05B 6/12
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.