ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,367, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany).

"Kitchen appliance system and method of automatic taring for a kitchen appliance system" was invented by Nils Beckmann (Remscheid, Germany), Torsten Lang (Solingen, Germany), Miron Sernecki (Hagen, Germany), Felix Haunschild (Essen, Germany) and Kevin Schmitz (Haan-Gruiten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a kitchen appliance system with a base unit having a housing and with at least one accessory having an identification feature. A weighing module configured for recording a gross weight and a control device ar...