ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,505, issued on April 14, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Food preparation apparatus and method for food preparation" was invented by Javier Lasobras Bernad (Ejea de los Caballeros, Spain), Sergio Llorente Gil (Saragossa, Spain), Gonzalo Lopez Nicolas (Saragossa, Spain) and Carlos Sagues Blazquiz (Saragossa, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food preparation apparatus, in particular a cooktop apparatus, having a sensor unit which is provided in order to receive image data of a preparation region, having an additional sensor unit which is provided in order to receive additional image data of the preparation region ...