ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,001, issued on March 3, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Guetersloh, Germany).

"Cooking appliance muffle for a cooking appliance, cooking appliance and method for operating a cooking appliance" was invented by Hans-Gerd Holtdirk (Lippstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance muffle for a cooking appliance includes: a cooking chamber with a cooking chamber opening tightly closeable by a door of the cooking appliance, at least one cooking chamber wall bounding the cooking chamber. The cooking appliance muffle is explosion-proof. The cooking appliance muffle has, on a side of one of the at least one cooking chamb...