ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,733, issued on May 19, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).
"Extractor hood and method for operating an extractor hood" was invented by Marc Federmann (Sternenfels, Germany), Axel Glasbrenner (Bretten, Germany), Ilhan Guclu (Bretten, Germany), Markus Hochmann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Stefan Schrumpf (Bretten-Golshausen, Germany) and Jochen Schuhmacher (Oberhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extractor hood includes a functional unit, a control unit designed to control the functional unit, a hood body, a flap pivotably fastened to the hood body, and a sensor arranged on the flap and designed to detect a state of the...