US Patent Issued to BSH Hausgerate on Sept. 16 for "Cooking device with an automatic door opening function and method of operating same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,413, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Cooking device with an automatic door opening function and method of operating same" was invented by Alexander Dinkel (Unterwoessen, Germany), Michael Heinz (Bad Feilnbach, Germany), Bernd Martin (Stein an der Traun, Germany), Rainer Lebacher (Palling, Germany), Manfred Plankl (Traunwalchen, Germany) and Matthias Jahner (Waging am See, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a cooking appliance, a preparation program of the cooking appliance is carried out when preparing an item to be cooked in a cooking chamber of the cooking appliance,...