US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on Aug. 4 for "Edge to edge cooktop gasket" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,905, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Edge to edge cooktop gasket" was invented by Alexander Auer (Benton Harbor, Mich.), Satish Janardhan Kathar (Aurangabad, India), Akhil Haribhau Wankhede (Chandrapur, India) and Ajit Janardan Manohar (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gasket for a cooking appliance is positioned between a rear upswept section of the appliance and the cooktop surface. The gasket has a rigid section that is received in a gasket groove in the upswept section of the appliance and a flexible section that contacts the top surface of the cooktop surface. The gask...