ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,088, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Household dishwasher having at least one air outlet" was invented by Alexander Almus (Bissingen, Germany), Thomas Burggraf (Dillingen, Germany) and Christian Steck (Wiesenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household dishwasher includes a dishwasher cavity for processing items to be washed, a front panel attached to a front side of the household dishwasher, and an air discharge unit arranged in a lower quarter of a height of the household dishwasher and including an air outlet designed to discharge air from the dishwasher cavity and arranged in the lowe...