US Patent Issued to Broan-NuTone on March 4 for "Retractable range hood" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,635, issued on March 4, was assigned to Broan-NuTone LLC (Hartford, Wis.).

"Retractable range hood" was invented by Bradley Mergener (Hartford, Wis.), Ryan Revers (Hartford, Wis.), Richard R. Sinur (Hartford, Wis.), Brian Wellnitz (Hartford, Wis.), Brent Lillesand (Hartford, Wis.) and Jason Asmus (Hartford, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A range hood for a microwave includes a range-hood mount and a pair of hood slides coupled to the range-hood mount. Each hood slide includes portions that are configured to move relative to the range-hood mount between a retracted position and an extended position. The range hood further include...