ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,336, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BJB GmbH & Co. KG (Arnsberg, Germany).

"Cooking apparatus light" was invented by Philipp Henrici (Arnsberg, Germany), Olaf Baumeister (Sundern, Germany) and Matthias Mietner (Arnsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seal arrangement for an illumination device of a cooking apparatus, the seal arrangement comprising: a support element including a receiving borehole that penetrates the support element from top to bottom so that a light conductor rod is insertable into the receiving borehole in an insertion direction; a dead hole having a dead hole diameter that is greater than a receivin...