US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 9 for "Encapsulation system for a thermal bridge breaker-to-metal liner" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,970, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Encapsulation system for a thermal bridge breaker-to-metal liner" was invented by Paul B. Allard (Coloma, Mich.), Lakshya J. Deka (Mishawaka, Ind.), Gustavo Frattini (St. Joseph, Mich.), Lynne F. Hunter (Dorr, Mich.), Hua Liu (St. Joseph, Mich.), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.), Eric J. Vasko (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Jerry M. Visin (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance includes an outer wrapper, an inner liner, a trim breaker having a wrapper channel that receives a wrapper edge of the outer wrapper and a liner channel that r...