US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Aug. 5 for "Method for determining an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user, apparatus for this purpose and also household appliance having the apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,150, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Method for determining an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user, apparatus for this purpose and also household appliance having the apparatus" was invented by Peter Hellwig (Dischingen, Germany) and Simon Mayer (Dornstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines an actuation of a door of a household appliance by a user. The door closes an access opening of a body of the appliance to an interior space by virtue of an elastic seal that is arranged on the door inner side and braces circumferentially against a region of an edge of the...