US Patent Issued to MIELE & CIE. on Sept. 30 for "Cooking appliance with a camera and method for the operation thereof" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,286, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Guetersloh, Germany).

"Cooking appliance with a camera and method for the operation thereof" was invented by Kay Luetkenhaus (Beckum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes: a housing having a cooking chamber disposed in the housing and bounded by at least one cooking chamber wall of the housing; and a camera disposed in the housing for observing the cooking chamber and/or an item to be cooked placed in the cooking chamber, the camera being in image transmission connection with the cooking chamber via a housing opening in the at least one cooking ...