ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,668, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Dishwasher, method for operating a dishwasher, and computer program product" was invented by Andreas Heidel (Holzheim, Germany), Johannes Wolfle (Villenbach, Germany), Vitus Hormann (Glott, Germany) and Bernd Kranzle (Dischingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes a dishwasher interior for washing items to be washed with washing liquor. Arranged at a lower end of the dishwasher interior is a pump sump for collecting the washing liquor, and a sensor is arranged in the pump sump for outputting a sensor signal as a function of a presence o...