US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Dec. 2 for "Inner-facing panel for an operable door of an appliance" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,607, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Inner-facing panel for an operable door of an appliance" was invented by Sripad Kulkarni (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Chaitanya Salve (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a cabinet having an access aperture positioned within a door-receiving recess to provide access to a processing space within the cabinet. A door is rotationally operable relative to the door-receiving recess to selectively enclose the processing space. The door has an inner-facing panel that defines a plurality of recesses. Hinges are fixedly attached to fir...