ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,774, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Oven having an imaging system for food preparation" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oven may include an image processing system configured to take images of an interior of a cavity of the oven. Images of the interior of the oven cavity captured by the image processing system are input into a machine learning model trained to identify food items in the image. The oven uses the identity of the food item output by the machine learning model ...