US Patent Issued to BSH Home Appliances, BSH Hausgerate on Aug. 12 for "Oven having an automatic self-cleaning system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,326, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Oven having an automatic self-cleaning system" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.), Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.) and Stefan Wrehde (NuBdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning an oven may include automatically scheduling a cleaning event to occur during a period of user inactivity, by an electronic controller of an oven, based on an estimated cumulative soiling level and a predicted period of user inactivity. In this context, the cleaning event includes one or more automatic activi...