ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,114, issued on June 17, was assigned to Welbilt Deutschland GmbH (Eglfing, Germany).
"Kitchen and/or catering device" was invented by Hannes Wild (Riegsee, Germany), Arndt Manter (Horgenzell, Germany) and Sebastian Siebert (Neubeuern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen and/or gastronomy device, in particular a cooking device, comprising a control unit, a touch display connected to the control unit, and a turning unit with a knob, which can be turned by the user around a Z-axis for executing a user input, and with at least one touch element arranged at the knob for swiping and thereby actuating the touch display; wherein...