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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2024
Welbilt Deutschland Gmbh, Eglfing, DE;
Hannes Wild, Riegsee, DE;
Herbert Fischhaber, Peißenberg, DE;
Welbilt Deutschland GmbH, Eglfing, DE;
Abstract
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 other for receiving one food product carrier each on insertion levels of different heights; and an optical recognition system arranged above the interior space opening and includes an image recording device, wherein the image recording device is connected to a separate evaluation device via a data line which, by an evaluation algorithm, determines the positioning of one or more food product carriers in the interior space and/or the positioning of at least one food product arranged on the food product carrier from the interior space image data recorded by the image recording device and transmitted to the evaluation device.