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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2020
Anova Applied Electronics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison John Lees, San Franciso, CA (US);
Matthew Erwin Hilt, Port Washington, NY (US);
Anova Applied Electronics, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An appliance having a cabinet, a door connected to the cabinet and movable in an opening direction from a closed position to an open position, and a handle connected to the door. The handle has a first side facing against the opening direction and forming a grasping surface, a second side facing along the opening direction, and an interface region having one or more input interfaces on the second side of the handle. The appliance has one or more shutoff sensors configured to disable at least one of the one or more input interfaces on the interface region when an object is detected adjacent the grasping surface.