US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 15 for "Mesh screen to prevent access to hot surfaces within an oven appliance" (Georgia, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,825, issued on July 15, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mesh screen to prevent access to hot surfaces within an oven appliance" was invented by Willie D. Warren Jr. (Ringgold, Ga.), Frank Jacob Hellwig (East Ridge, Tenn.) and Ishan Prakashrao Chimurkar (Lafayette, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oven appliance includes a cabinet, a plurality of walls positioned therein to define a cooking chamber, and a door that provides selective access to the cooking chamber. An air passageway is defined through the door and around the cooking chamber between the plurality of walls and the cabinet. An a...