US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on May 13 for "Interrupting circuit for a radio frequency generator" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,482, issued on May 13, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Interrupting circuit for a radio frequency generator" was invented by Henrik Mattfolk (Benton Harbor, Mich.) and Davide Guatta (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interrupting circuit (44) is configured to monitor for and detect a fault in a device (10) for generating a field of electromagnetic radiation (e-field) (34) from a radio frequency (RF) generator (24) configured to convert low voltage direct current (DC) into the e-field (34) for application to an article in the e-field (34). If a fault is detected, the interrupting circuit (44) in...