US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on June 23 for "Kitchen appliance including locating features for foot assemblies" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,961, issued on June 23, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Kitchen appliance including locating features for foot assemblies" was invented by Andrew Pierce (Louisville, Ky.) and Eric Matthew Lewis (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen appliance includes a casing including a base and a column extending from the base along the vertical direction, the casing defining an interior surface directed toward an interior cavity and an exterior surface directed away from the interior cavity, a pair of tabs protruding from the interior surface of the casing along the vertical direction towa...