ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,830, issued on March 18, was assigned to ELECTROLUX PROFESSIONAL AB (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Laundry processing machine, and method of starting a laundry processing machine" was invented by Silvana Johansson (Ljungby, Sweden), Neal Milch (Woodmere, N.Y.) and Marius Stucheli (Ljungby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry processing machine comprises: a rotatable drum; a load sensing arrangement configured to detect an amount of laundry in the drum and, based on a detected amount of laundry, generate a load signal; and a controller configured to initiate a laundry processing program, wherein the controller is configured to rece...