US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on March 24 for "Door support feature of a refrigeration unit" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,680, issued on March 24, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Door support feature of a refrigeration unit" was invented by Doray Chhetri (Pune, India), Jackson F. Karl (Stevensville, Mich.), Vishal S. Marathe (Pune, India), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.) and Ranjit P. Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration unit includes a cabinet, a door, and a door support feature positioned proximate to the lower side of the door. The door support feature is movable relative to the cabinet between a first position, wherein the door support feature supports the lower side of the door in the closed p...