ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,574, issued on April 14, was assigned to Moyer Diebel Ltd. (Jordan Station, Canada).

"On-demand glasswasher and a method of operating the same" was invented by Raymond Charles Howe (Grimsby, Canada) and Ivan Josip Katkic (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-demand glasswasher comprises a drive motor; a rotary conveyor connected to the drive motor; an ultrasonic sensor assembly positioned adjacent to the rotary conveyor; a microprocessor connected to the drive motor and the ultrasonic sensor assembly; and a memory device coupled to the microprocessor, the memory device storing processor-executable instructions which...