US Patent Issued to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag on July 15 for "Laundry treatment appliance having selectable treatment agent control modes" (Italian, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,358, issued on July 15, was assigned to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag (Stockholm).

"Laundry treatment appliance having selectable treatment agent control modes" was invented by Hugo Gnadeberg (Stockholm), Paolo Quattrin (Porcia, Italy) and Luca Da Re (Porcia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance having a treatment cycle a drawer with a compartments for treatment agents; metering devices to draw doses from the compartments; and a control unit to control the metering devices according to a selected control mode. In a first mode, one metering device draws treatment agent dose during one of two phases, an...