ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,614, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Guangdong Midea White Home Appliance Technology Innovation Center Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China), Foshan Shunde Midea Washing Appliances Mfg. Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China) and Midea Group Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China).

"Tableware washing apparatus and filtering device thereof" was invented by Wenyong Yang (Foshan, China), Weijun Xue (Foshan, China) and Seungjun Lee (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering device and a tableware washing apparatus, the filtering device includes a rotary filter and a drive assembly. The rotary filter includes a columnar filtering screen configured to filter water...