ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,550, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry appliance door for treatment of non-moving articles" was invented by Alexander B. Leibman (Prospect, Ky.), Venkata Chakradhar Rangu (Louisville, Ky.) and Jay Pareshbhai Shinde (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly for a horizontal axis laundry appliance and a horizontal axis laundry appliance with the door assembly are disclosed. The door assembly includes a an appliance door with an outer face opposite and spaced apart from an inner face with the inner and outer faces defining a compartment. The compartm...