US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on June 17 for "Sink with feed chain or spindle drive for an insert plate with an adjustable height" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,501, issued on June 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Sink with feed chain or spindle drive for an insert plate with an adjustable height" was invented by Andreas Wolfler (Saalfelden, Austria), Benjamin Reu (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany), Ingo Abels (Siegsdorf, Germany) and Brigitte Meyer (Chieming, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sink includes a basin including a base wall and lateral walls adjoining the base wall. The basin includes a receiving area which is delimited by the base wall and the lateral walls. An insert plate separate from the basin is inserted into the receiving area. A lifting device is confi...