US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on May 12 for "Processing of core material in a vacuum insulated structure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,888, issued on May 12, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Processing of core material in a vacuum insulated structure" was invented by Gustavo Frattini (St. Joseph, Mich.), Anna Jedralski (St. Joseph, Mich.), Ashish Nigam (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Subrata Shannigrahi (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling system for a vacuum insulated structure includes a powder processor configured to load an internal cavity of the vacuum insulated structure with a heated and at least partially degassed vacuum insulation material. The powder processor includes a hopper with inner and outer hopper walls. The in...