US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Dec. 16 for "Household appliance with a user interface" (American, Polish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,946, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Household appliance with a user interface" was invented by Arkadiusz Michal Teclaw (Wroclaw, Poland), Ajay Ram Narayana Pillai (Saint Joseph, Mich.) and Priyanka Popat Mali (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for a home appliance comprises a circuit board having an array of manually-actuated switches and an array of light sources. The user interface further comprises an input interface spaced from the circuit board and having an array of optical transmission elements corresponding to the array of light sources, an array of...