US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Dec. 2 for "Panel mounted power-cable system for an appliance" (Indian, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,285, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Panel mounted power-cable system for an appliance" was invented by Murgyappa Mahadev Athani (Maharashtra, India), Lingaraj I. Bandiwad (Savanur, India), Jakub Buczkowski (Kielczow, Poland), Varun D. Kuvalekar (Stevensville, Mich.), Rafal Serniak (Zmigrod, Poland), Shaikh Meejanali Shoukatali (Maharashtra, India) and Scott Patrick Kokoska (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance includes a cabinet with a rear panel. The rear panel defines a recessed portion with an offset surface and an aperture defined on the offset surface. A power co...