US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on July 28 for "Hinge assembly for an appliance lid and installation method therefor" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,645, issued on July 28, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Hinge assembly for an appliance lid and installation method therefor" was invented by James Jeffery (St. Joseph, Mich.), Paula Lobaccaro (St. Joseph, Mich.), Nicholas C. Schooley (Coloma, Mich.) and David Walter (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a cabinet having a top panel that defines an aperture for selectively accessing a treatment chamber defined within the cabinet. A lid is rotationally operable relative to the aperture of the top panel between open and closed positions. Hinge assemblies extend between t...