ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,989, issued on June 16, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Door and domestic cooking device" was invented by Maximilian Bernauer (Kienberg, Germany), Frederic Dubois (Trostberg, Germany), Wolfgang Horner (Traunstein, Germany), Peter Jell (Breitbrunn, Germany), Anja Schueck (Traunreut, Germany) and Christine Thaller (Waging, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door for a household cooking appliance includes an outer pane, an inner pane, a condensate collecting strip provided on a lower edge of the door for collecting a liquid condensed on the inner pane, and a seal element arranged at least in one portion in a gap bet...