ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,508, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Haugerate GmbH (Munich).

"Home cooking appliance having an integrated door glass surface cleaner for automatic removal of cooking debris" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity and a door movable between a closed state and an open state for providing access to an opening of the cooking cavity. The door has a glass surface facing an interior of the cooking cavity when the door is in the closed state, and at l...