US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on June 17 for "Establishing a degree of browning of food to be cooked" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,938, issued on June 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Establishing a degree of browning of food to be cooked" was invented by Sandra Ebert (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany) and Roland Schleser (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for establishing a degree of browning of food to be cooked in a cooking chamber of a household cooking appliance, a reference image is captured by a camera of the household cooking appliance, which camera is directed into the cooking chamber. A first measurement image is captured at a first brightness of a light source of the household cooking appliance, and ...