ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,090, issued on May 20, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Domestic appliance with at least one heater for a tubular piece through which a fluid flows" was invented by Stephan Lutz (Zusamaltheim, Germany), Stefan Pollithy (Forheim, Germany) and Markus Wecker (Gundremmingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household appliance includes a channel section which can be heated from outside and can be configured for passage of a fluid, and a plurality of electrically interconnected heating conductor elements for heating purposes, with at least some of the heating conductor elements being electrically connected together i...