US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 8 for "Flexible cover member for an appliance" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,971, issued on July 8, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Flexible cover member for an appliance" was invented by Alexander B. Leibman (Prospect, Ky.), V V Anil Bhaskar Prasad Seereddy (Hyderabad, India), Venkata Chakradhar Rangu (Hyderabad, India), Aaron Daniel Abbott (Louisville, Ky.), Byron James Dollar (Louisville, Ky.) and James Conrad Nickell (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an appliance having at least one chamber accessible via an opening and a flexible cover member for providing selective access to the opening. The flexible cover member i...