US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Nov. 25 for "Feature in vacuum insulated structure to allow pressure monitoring" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,830, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Feature in vacuum insulated structure to allow pressure monitoring" was invented by Paul B. Allard (Coloma, Mich.), Sai B. Krishna (Pune, India), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.) and Sanjesh Kumar Pathak (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance includes a metallic liner and an outer metallic wrapper. An insulating cavity is defined between the metallic liner and outer metallic wrapper. The appliance further includes a pressure sensing device disposed within the cavity. The pressure sensing device is located to detect a pressure st...