ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,751, issued on March 31, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Domestic appliance having a symmetrical bracket of a hinge for a door" was invented by Florian Gerstmayr (Gundelfingen, Germany), Johannes Kopf (Amstetten, Germany), Alfred Raab (Huttlingen, Germany) and Christian Schmid (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household appliance includes a housing, at least one hinge mounted on a front of the housing, and a door mounted on the hinge and thus mounted pivotably relative to the housing. The hinge has a bearing bracket fastened to an end face of the front with at least one fastening element. The bearing ...