ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,270, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Cooking program management system" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for the management of cooking programs associated with one or more cooking appliances associated with a user. An electronic device receives one or more food purchase records including information relating to food items. Based on the food item information, one or more relevant cooking programs are determined, those programs being suitable for a...