US Patent Issued to EMZ-HANAUER on Aug. 26 for "Domestic electrical appliance and door latch therefor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,582, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & Co. KGAA (Nabburg, Germany).

"Domestic electrical appliance and door latch therefor" was invented by Albert Dirnberger (Neunburg vom Wald, Germany), Benjamin Schemela (Schwarzenbach, Germany), Georg SpieBl (Altendorf, Germany) and Matthias Bauer (Schmidgaden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door latch for an electrical appliance includes a rotary gripper movably disposed between a gripping position and a release position with rotational displaceability and having a gripping mouth delimited between a pair of jaws. The rotary gripper is adapted to hold captive a strike...