US Patent Issued to Werkhaus on July 14 for "Hob with central downward removal of cooking vapors through suction" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,700, issued on July 14, was assigned to Werkhaus GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).

"Hob with central downward removal of cooking vapors through suction" was invented by Wilhelm Bruckbauer (Neubeuern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hob (1) with one or more cooking locations (2), which, as viewed from above, exhibits one or more recesses (4) only in the area (25) around its geometric center (3), which are respectively connected with one or more devices (5) for removing cooking vapors through suction. These devices (5) for removing cooking vapors through suction downwardly remove the cooking vapors that arise above the cooking location...