US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on June 17 for "Gimbal encoder" (Chinese, Indian, American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,512, issued on June 17, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Gimbal encoder" was invented by Shekhar Jirafe (Stevensville, Mich.), Harika Talluri (St. Joseph, Mich.), Joana Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Roc Qiu (Shenzhen, China), Sithaarth Subramaniyam (Stevensville, Mich.), Vitor Leobet Lima (Joinville, Brazil), Dattatray Patil (Pune, India) and Yogesh Chauhan (Ahmedabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gimbal assembly includes a gimbal encoder having a gimbal encoder having a lower fixed section and an upper rotatable section, the gimbal encoder defining a gimbal aperture through an axis of rotation of the upp...