US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Feb. 25 for "Moveable shelf assembly for a dishwasher" (Italian, American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,682, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Moveable shelf assembly for a dishwasher" was invented by Fabio Cardano (Galliate, Italy), Joseph Thomas Ferencevich (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Umit Can Koralay (Milan) and Mateusz Uzniak (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moveable shelf assembly is used within a dish treating appliance. The moveable shelf assembly includes a retaining body having at least one attachment arm. The at least one attachment arm is configured to be coupled to a dish rack. The moveable shelf assembly also includes a planar shelf body extending along a width. The pla...