US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on June 23 for "Lighted knob" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,577, issued on June 23, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Lighted knob" was invented by Nikhil Rajiv Altekar (Sangli, India), Nikhil Sanjay Bhujbal (Pune, India), Zachary J. Bruin-Slot (Baroda, Mich.), Devendra Bhaskar Shirore (Pune, India), Pradeep Shankar Thorat (Stevensville, Mich.) and Vishal Dhayagonde (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backlight knob assembly provides light behind a knob on an appliance. A light guide transfers light from a light source in an encoder assembly in order to provide light behind the knob. The backlight knob assembly is coupled to a surface of the appliance ...