ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,522, issued on July 14, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Cooking appliance and knob assembly thereof" was invented by Paul Bryan Cadima (Crestwood, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance may include a control knob that may be mountable to the cooking appliance at a surface panel of the cooking appliance. The control knob may include an adjustable body that may include a push body and a center projection that may define a body opening. The push body may include a push surface and an outer skirt that may extend from a perimeter of the push surface. The outer skirt may define a plura...