US Patent Issued to EMZ-HANAUER on March 3 for "Door latch with self-healing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,794, issued on March 3, was assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & Co. KGAA (Nabburg, Germany).

"Door latch with self-healing" was invented by Josef Bauriedl (Neunburg, Germany) and Georg Spiessl (Altendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A domestic electrical appliance, for example a dishwasher, is disclosed, in which a door latch is installed in a profile strip of an appliance body. The door latch comprises a latch housing in which, in some embodiments, a rotary gripper and a leg-torsion spring serving as a closing spring are accommodated. In one embodiment, the door latch as a whole is displaceable in the profile strip in the stri...