Operating an appliance based on cooking instructions embedded in an RFID product tag
US9277601B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 26, 2009 |
| Grant date | Mar 1, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 7, 2034 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH05B6/6441
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Method and computer program product for using an RFID antenna of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance selects one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing. Furthermore, the cooking appliance may then automatically cook the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. The selection of a cooking instruction set may consider the temperature of the food product or a determination whether the food product is frozen. Alternatively, cooking appliance settings may be interpolated between two cooking instruction sets or calculated on the basis of physical property information about the food product.
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