US Patent Issued to Miele & Cie. on June 23 for "Cooking appliance, straining device and use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,960, issued on June 23, was assigned to Miele & Cie. KG (Guetersloh, Germany).

"Cooking appliance, straining device and use" was invented by Micha Reifert (Buende, Germany) and Ralf Ellersiek (Buende, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A straining device for a cooking appliance includes: at least one straining body having at least two passages for draining liquid. At least one passage provided as a hole. At least one passage is provided as an embossment. In an embodiment, the at least one straining body includes a plurality of embossments along a circumference of the at least one straining body."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29,...