ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,234, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).

"System and method for adjusting the depth of parallelization for recipe program execution" was invented by Beatriz Rodriguez (Madrid), Stefan Kraut-Reinkober (Leverkusen, Germany) and Niklas Van Teeffelen (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recipe instructions may be executed by one or more cooking apparatuses, and annotated with one or more device types suitable to execute the respectively annotated recipe instructions. A parallelization constraint associated with a particular cooking user may influences a degree of paralle...