ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,753, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Meiko Maschinenbau Gmbh & Co. KG (Offenburg, Germany).

"Handling module for loading a transport device of a conveyor dishwasher" was invented by Bruno Gaus (Offenburg, Germany), Harald Fohrenbach (Hohberg, Germany), Bernd Ringwald (Ortenberg, Germany), Denis Lehmann (Ortenberg, Germany), Thomas Nager (Offenburg, Germany), Markus Rohde (Rheinau, Germany) and Marcel Trankle (Kappel-Grafenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a handling module for loading a transport device of a conveyor dishwasher. The handling module comprises a turning wheel for turning a dishw...