ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,712, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VORWERK & Co. INTERHOLDING GMBH (Germany).

"Kitchen appliance with charge control of an auxiliary device" was invented by Matthias Ludwig (Mettmann, Germany) and Mirco Pieper (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a kitchen appliance for preparing food and a battery-operated auxiliary device. The kitchen appliance includes a food preparation vessel for receiving the food to be prepared therein. The kitchen appliance includes a tool for mixing or comminuting the food in the food preparation vessel and/or a heating element for heating the food in the food preparation...