ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,868, issued on April 1, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Side access panel for an appliance" was invented by Koteswara Rao Gochika (Pune, India), Narendra A. Kapure (Pune, India), Manjunathraddi Navalgund (Pune, India) and Manoj T. Sambrekar (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance cabinet includes an outer wrapper that encloses an inner liner. The outer wrapper defines an integrally formed machine compartment. A vacuum insulated structure is defined between the outer wrapper and the inner liner. A selectively removable side access panel is removably coupled to the outer wrapper. The selectivel...