US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Dec. 30 for "System for optical wash item recognition in dishwashers, method for optical wash item recognition, dishwasher with an optical wash item recognition system and method for operating such a dishwasher" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,857, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"System for optical wash item recognition in dishwashers, method for optical wash item recognition, dishwasher with an optical wash item recognition system and method for operating such a dishwasher" was invented by Harald Disch (Elzach, Germany), Bjorn S. Himmelsbach (Offenburg, Germany), Sebastian Huber (Appenweier, Germany) and Patrick Dufner (Offenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optical wash item recognition for commercial dishwashers embodied as conveyor dishwashers or as automatic programme dishwashers, in particular hoo...