US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on April 22 for "Insulated structure for an appliance" (Indian, American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,950, issued on April 22, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Insulated structure for an appliance" was invented by Sunil Shivaji Ekshinge (Pune, India), Omkar Sunil Mithari (Pune, India), Caroline Paiva Torres (Joinville, Brazil), Sanjesh Kumar Pathak (Stevensville, Mich.) and Paul Bennett Allard (Coloma, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulated structure for an appliance includes a plurality of walls, a cavity defined by the plurality of walls, and an aperture defined by one of the plurality of walls. The aperture is employed in evacuating the cavity to establish a less-than-atmospheric pressure within t...