ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,344, issued on June 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"System comprising a dishwasher, method for operating a dishwasher, and computer program product" was invented by Kuldeep Narayan Singh (Dillingen a.d. Donau, Germany), Kai Paintner (Welden, Germany) and Michael Rupp (Holzheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a dishwasher having a receptacle for items to be washed, an image capturing facility configured to capture an image of the receptacle of the dishwasher for items to be washed, and an image processing facility configured to determine in dependence upon the captured image a map of an arr...