ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,075, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Shipping spacer assembly for washing machines" was invented by Sushant Maruti Bhogulkar (Karnataka, India), Ravikumar Anburaj (Tamilnadu, India), Srikanth Gopireddy (Telangana, India), Pavan Kumar Madeti (Andhra Pradesh, India), Veera Venkata Anil Bhaskar Prasad Seereddy (Hyderabad, India), Venkata Chakradhar Rangu (Louisville, Ky.), Neelapala Gopinath Yadav (Hyderabad, India), Ajay Kumar Kommagalla (Hyderabad, India) and Kalyana Swamy Mallavarapu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shipping spacer assembly is configured to b...