ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,364, issued on July 22, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Bottom vent trim for oven" was invented by Shivaraj V. Giramallanavar (Belagavi, India), Ankur Garg (Pune, India), Avinash Nanjundappa (Bangalore, India), David G. Quante (St. Joseph, Mich.), Federico Garuccio (Bresso, Italy) and Ashish Mittal (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vent assembly for use with an oven. The vent assembly includes polymeric end caps that are ultrasonically molded to a metal bracket. The metal bracket is coupled to a lower fin and an upper fin. The polymeric end caps include support surfaces for holding sections of the...