ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,948, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"System with a dishwasher, method, and computer program product" was invented by Kai Paintner (Welden, Germany), Michael Rupp (Holzheim, Germany) and Kuldeep Narayan Singh (Dillingen a.d. Donau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a dishwasher having a dish rack to receive dishes. An image capturing device captures a 2D image of the dish rack of the dishwasher and the dishes, and an image processing device determines a 3D image based on the captured 2D image and additionally captured metadata of the captured 2D image. A control device executes ...