US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Imaging assembly for an oven appliance" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,211, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Imaging assembly for an oven appliance" was invented by Wesley Dunn (Mount Juliet, Tenn.), Jorge Mota (Columbia, Tenn.) and Ric Gilliland (Chattanooga, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oven appliance includes a cooking chamber positioned within a cabinet, a door rotatably mounted to the cabinet for providing selective access to the cooking chamber, the door comprising a window, a camera assembly configured for obtaining one or more images of the cooking chamber, wherein the camera assembly comprises a lens that is seated flat against t...