US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Handle assembly for an appliance door" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,189, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Handle assembly for an appliance door" was invented by Louis A. Wantland (Louisville, Ky.), William Jeremy Leachman (Pewee Valley, Ky.) and Jonathan Charles Crosby (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly for an appliance includes a door defining an outer door panel, a mounting stud extending from the outer door panel, and a handle assembly. The handle assembly includes a handle tube, a bushing seated against the handle tube and defining a through hole, a bushing fastener passing through the through hole of the bushin...