ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,339, issued on June 17, was assigned to INNOVATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SHENGZHOU (Zhejiang, China).

"Energy-saving dishwasher and control method therefor" was invented by Shuiqing Zhou (Zhejiang, China), Ding Xia (Zhejiang, China), Yu Luo (Zhejiang, China), Xi Jin (Zhejiang, China), Zijian Mao (Zhejiang, China) and Tianle Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention are an energy-saving dishwasher and a control method therefor. The inner container is arranged inside the housing, the inner container is internally provided with a manifold type dish rack fo...