US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on June 24 for "Additive accessory for an agitator post in a washing machine appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,567, issued on June 24, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Additive accessory for an agitator post in a washing machine appliance" was invented by Senthil Kandasamy (Louisville, Ky.), Troy Marshall Wright (Louisville, Ky.) and Isaiah Littlejohn (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine appliance includes a cabinet; a tub rotatably provided within the cabinet; an agitator provided within the tub, the agitator defining an axial direction, a radial direction, and a circumferential direction, the axial direction being parallel to the vertical direction. The agitator defines a re...