US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 8 for "Support assembly for appliance" (Polish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,902, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Support assembly for appliance" was invented by Kamil El-Sayed (Wroclaw, Poland), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.), Chad Rotter (Saugatuck, Mich.), Bartosz Stawczyk (Wroclaw, Poland) and Karol Michal Kostka (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum insulated appliance includes an outer wrapper and an inner liner. A ladder rack is coupled to the inner liner. The ladder rack includes first and second sidewalls coupled together by a connecting wall that defines a plurality of apertures. An adapter member includes a hook configured to extend t...