US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Feb. 10 for "Optical waveguide device for a cooking appliance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,481, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Optical waveguide device for a cooking appliance" was invented by Ludwig Beyer (Kirchweidach, Germany), Maxim Balzer (Rosenheim, Germany) and Joschka Bar (Surberg-Hufschlag, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical waveguide device for guiding light emitted from a light source into an interior space of a household appliance includes an optical waveguide designed to emit light, introduced into the optical waveguide at a first end of the optical waveguide, to a second end of the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has a cylindrical outer surface betwee...