ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,501, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Laundry appliance drainage" was invented by David Scott Dunn (Louisville, Ky.), Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.), Wayne E. Lawson (La Grange, Ky.) and Dimitar Tcholakov (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior volume with a housing mounted within the interior volume of the cabinet. An air filter is positioned in the housing. The air filter may be positioned upstream of a heating system of the laundry appliance. The laundry appliance also includes a drain path exte...