US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on June 30 for "Refrigerator with a vacuum-insulated structure supported by a structural support with a baseplate welded to the vacuum-insulated structure" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,280, issued on June 30, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigerator with a vacuum-insulated structure supported by a structural support with a baseplate welded to the vacuum-insulated structure" was invented by Paul Bennett Allard (Coloma, Mich.), Vishal Brahmanand Chauhan (Palghar, India), Narendra Ashok Kapure (Pune, India), Rahul Sadanand Kumbhare (Gadchiroli, India) and Abinash Sarma (Tinsukia, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including: (a) a vacuum-insulated structure including (i) an inner liner defining a refrigeration compartment or a freezer compartment, (ii) an outer wrapper at ...