ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,340, issued on May 19, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Method for monitoring a cooking product, and domestic cooking appliance" was invented by Martin Graf (Schaufling, Germany) and Mike Karl (Traunstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for monitoring food to be cooked that is located in a cooking compartment of a household cooking appliance during a cooking sequence based on a sequence of images captured with a camera, image parameters of the camera are automatically at a beginning of the cooking sequence, and the image parameters initially set by the camera are retained in a subsequent course of the...