US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Automatic lint filter cleaner for clothes dryer" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,972, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Automatic lint filter cleaner for clothes dryer" was invented by Neki Jashwant Patel (Hyderabad, India) and Jay Pareshbhai Shinde (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer appliance includes a cabinet with drum defining a drying chamber rotatably mounted therein. Air passing through the drying chamber exhausts through a lint trap duct, where a screen filter in situated for removing lint and debris collected in the drying chamber from the passing air. A lint collector having a first opening is aligned with the screen filter. A...