ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,790, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Detecting a standstill of a rotatable microwave distribution device" was invented by Andreas Kaiser (Halfing, Germany), Markus Kuchler (Gstadt am Chiemsee, Germany), Markus de Vries (Tittmoning, Germany) and Peter Guggenberger (Bad Endorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for detecting a standstill of a rotatable microwave distribution apparatus of a household microwave appliance, while microwaves are being supplied into a cooking compartment of the household microwave appliance, a microwave leakage radiation for angle-dependent recurring fluctua...