ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,339, issued on June 2, was assigned to ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG (Stockholm).

"Method for treating food in an appliance, food treatment system and software application" was invented by Michele Toppano (Porcia, Italy), Christoph Luckhardt (Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany), Vladimir Smirnov (Syktyvkar, Russia), Dmitrii Shustrov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and Thorben Schiffler (Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating food in an appliance (14) by at least one treatment device of the appliance (14) comprises the steps of a. providing a food recognition system with at least one camera ...