US Patent Issued to E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau on Sept. 2 for "Method of operating a washing machine and washing machine" (Spanish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,620, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH (Oberderdingen, Germany).

"Method of operating a washing machine and washing machine" was invented by Toni Torres (Llica de Vall, Spain), Jordi Camps (Llica de Vall, Spain), Pau Sala Perez (L'Escala, Spain), Alvar Villegas (Llica de Vall, Spain), Gerard Sanchez (Llica de Vall, Spain) and Uwe Schaumann (Oberderdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a washing machine, different values for the power required by a drive motor of a drum of the washing machine to accelerate the drum from 30 rpm to 80 rpm are measured and stored as refere...