US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on May 13 for "Vacuum insulated appliance with pressure monitoring" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,069, issued on May 13, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Vacuum insulated appliance with pressure monitoring" was invented by Paul B. Allard (Coloma, Mich.), Sunil S. Ekshinge (Pune, India), Alberto Regio Gomes (St. Joseph, Mich.), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.) and Sanjesh Kumar Pathak (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring pressure includes the steps of (1) providing a vacuum cabinet with a storage compartment and an insulating space, and three temperature sensors; (2) sensing a first temperature level of an interior wall of the storage compartment; (3) sensing an ambient ...