ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,988, issued on July 14, was assigned to Welbilt Deutschland GmbH (Eglfing, Germany).
"Food product position and recognition cooking and/or holding device system utilizing plural optical recognition systems" was invented by Hannes Wild (Riegsee, Germany) and Herbert Fischhaber (PeiBenberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking and/or heat retention appliance, in particular a commercial cooking appliance, comprising a housing in which an interior space is arranged having a cooking or interior space opening; an insert rack arranged in the interior space and includes a plurality of pairs of insert rails arranged one above the ...