ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,345, issued on June 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Household dishwasher having at least one air outlet" was invented by Thomas Burggraf (Dillingen, Germany), Xabier Sagues Garcia (Pamplona, Spain) and Yongchao Tian (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity for processing items to be washed, and an air outlet designed to blow out dishwasher interior air of the dishwasher cavity. The air outlet is arranged in a lower quarter of a height of the household dishwasher and extends as a slot outlet over at least half of a width of the household dishwasher."
The pat...