Cooking appliance and method of indicating pan absence on a cooktop of a cooking appliance

Abstract

A cooking appliance includes a cooktop including a plurality of heating elements; a user interface provided on the cooktop, the user interface including a plurality of indicators; and a controller operably coupled with the cooktop and the user interface, the controller configured to perform an operation. The operation includes detecting a cookware item on the cooktop, the cookware item being associated with a first heating element of the plurality of heating elements; determining that the first heating element is active; determining that the cookware item has been removed from the first heating element after determining that the first heating element is active; and adjusting the display in response to determining that the cookware item has been removed from the first heating element, wherein adjusting the display includes activating the plurality of indicators of the display according to a predetermined pattern.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.