US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on July 8 for "Door assembly for a laundry treating appliance" (Indian, American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,973, issued on July 8, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Door assembly for a laundry treating appliance" was invented by Snehal S. Bhandare (Maharashtra, India), Yogesh Dhanabalan Chandrasekaran (Pune, India), Jose Aldo Ramirez (Monterrey, Mexico) and Scott T. Thalls (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly has an intermediate door, a door cover and a rear door. The intermediate door has a front surface and a rear surface and defining an opening, the intermediate door having a cover hook opening. The door cover is adjacent the front surface. The door cover has a door hook engaging the ...