ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,796, issued on March 31, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Door opener for a domestic appliance" was invented by Nicola Sartori (Barasso, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door opener for a domestic appliance includes a motor and a pusher member having a rack portion. The pusher member is displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position in which it is engageable with a door of a domestic appliance in order to open the door, and a gear train connected between the output of the motor and the rack portion of the pusher member, which causes displacement of the pusher member in response to...