ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,433, issued on March 4, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).

"Method for food management, kitchen appliance and food preparation system" was invented by Stefan Kraut-Reinkober (Leverkusen, Germany), Andrej Mosebach (Bochum, Germany), Mirco Pieper (Wuppertal, Germany), Christiane Stach (Radevormwald, Germany), Wenjie Yan (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Sarah Werhahn (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for food management with a kitchen appliance for at least partially automated processing of a recipe. The method includes the following steps: receiving user-specific health...