US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Nov. 11 for "Adjustment assembly for a countertop appliance" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,177, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Adjustment assembly for a countertop appliance" was invented by Peter I. Bilionis (St. Joseph, Mich.), Kapil Gupta (Pune, India) and Akshay Sanjay Tondwal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A countertop appliance includes a body with a pedestal and a mixer head that is operably coupled to the body and defines a slot. An adjustment assembly is operably coupled to and selectively disposed within the mixer head. The adjustment assembly includes an actuation feature that defines detents and includes an actuator with a first engagement member and a s...