ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,616, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Door latch for an appliance" was invented by Matthew Chester Andruszkiewicz (Niles, Mich.), Rohan Gajanan Gore (Stevensville, Mich.), Sarang Hemant Lokaksha (Pune, India), Suraj Ganpatrao Patil (Solapur, India) and Yogesh Sonone (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes an appliance body including a plurality of panels. The plurality of panels includes a front panel and a top panel, where the front panel defines a cavity aperture and a lock aperture. A cooking cavity assembly is disposed within the appliance body, where the...