ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,813, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Gutersloh, Germany).

"Cutlery rack for a dishwasher" was invented by Martin Dettmer (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutlery rack for a dishwasher includes: a rack body, which is mounted such that the rack body is pullable out of a washing chamber of the dishwasher in a pull-out direction and which provides a cutlery insert for receiving pieces of cutlery, the cutlery insert having, for separately holding pieces of cutlery oriented transversely to the pull-out direction, a first stud row and a second stud row, which runs parallel to and is spaced apart from...