ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,182, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dispensing assembly for an appliance using a single motor to drive multiple items" was invented by Ravi Patel (Louisville, Ky.) and Reagan Murphy (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher appliance includes a tub defining a wash chamber; a door; at least one fluid storage vessel positioned within the wash chamber; and a dispenser assembly fluidly coupled with the at least one fluid storage vessel. The dispenser assembly includes a fluid diverter including a plurality of fluid inlet channels, a fluid outlet channel, and a ...