US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on Sept. 9 for "Stand mixer with locking planetary output" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,797, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Stand mixer with locking planetary output" was invented by Dan Christian Barfuss Jr. (St. Joseph, Mich.), Timothy E. Heater (Hartford, Mich.) and Naveen Jayabalan (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stand mixer includes a motor output shaft and a locking planetary output. The locking planetary output has a center shaft operably connected with the output shaft for driven rotation about a fixed axis, an agitator shaft mounted to the center shaft such that the agitator shaft moves around the fixed axis of the center shaft in a planetary a...