ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,081, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rational AG (Landsberg am Lech, Germany).

"Method for visualising a programme planning, dialogue interface therefor and cooking device therefor" was invented by Judith Kling (Landsberg am Lech, Germany), Tanja Agapkin (Landsberg am Lech, Germany) and Simon Seemuller (Landsberg am Lech, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for visualizing programs for at least one cooking appliance, in which, after selection of at least two programs from a plurality of programs and their chronological order, the selected programs are displayed on at least one display d...