ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,274, issued on March 4, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"System comprising a dishwasher and method for operating a dishwasher" was invented by Alfredo Calvimontes (Dillingen a. d. Donau, Germany) and Philipp Neumaier (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a dishwasher, an image capturing device designed to capture an image of washware arranged in the washing chamber, with the image including a plurality of sub-images, each of which having different spectral information of the washware. An illumination unit illuminates the washware in the washing chamber, and an image analysis unit receives the captured...