US Patent Issued to EMZ-HANAUER on Nov. 11 for "Push-push door latch and domestic electrical appliance equipped therewith" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,295, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & Co. KGAA (Nabburg, Germany).

"Push-push door latch and domestic electrical appliance equipped therewith" was invented by Albert Dirnberger (Neunburg vom Wald, Germany), Benjamin Schemela (Schwarzenbach, Germany) and Karl-Heinz Uhl (Kallmunz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door latch includes a gripper adjustable between a gripping state and a release state, which gripper, in the gripping state, is able to grip a closing member for holding the door closed which moves relatively closer to the gripper in a closing direction as a door of the domestic appliance is closed...