US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on July 22 for "Domestic appliance and method for determining contour information of material" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,363, issued on July 22, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Domestic appliance and method for determining contour information of material" was invented by Sebastian Matzinger (Erharting, Germany), Kerstin Rigorth (Muhldorf, Germany), Sebastian Sterz (GroBaitingen, Germany), Max Stief (Vogtareuth, Germany) and Matthias Vogt (Obersulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household appliance includes a treatment chamber for treating material, a pattern luminaire designed to radiate a light pattern into the treatment chamber, an image sensor directed into the treatment chamber for capturing the light pattern reflected fro...