ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,191, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Detergent pod dispensing drawer for a laundry treatment appliance" was invented by Christopher Jaynes (Louisville, Ky.), Karlarrious Dawain Donar Jr. (Louisville, Ky.), Christopher Gene Vowels (Cox's Creek, Ky.), V V Subrahmanyeswara Rao Kasa (Narsapur, India) and Troy Marshall Wright (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet defining a drawer receiving space, a tub accommodated within the cabinet, the tub storing water, a basket rotatably mounted within the tub to rotate about a rotati...