ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,251, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Door and domestic cooking device" was invented by Alexander Dinkel (Unterwoessen, Germany), Frederic Dubois (Trostberg, Germany), Peter Jell (Breitbrunn, Germany) and Christine Thaller (Waging, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door for a household cooking appliance includes an outer pane, an inner pane, an intermediate pane arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane, a pane checking facility mounted on the door for rotation about a pivot axis from a starting position into an end position when, the intermediate pane is inserted in a direction of the...