US Patent Issued to MIELE & CIE. on July 1 for "Method for operating an automatic washing machine, and automatic washing machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,980, issued on July 1, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Gutersloh, Germany).

"Method for operating an automatic washing machine, and automatic washing machine" was invented by Dirk Sieding (Lunen, Germany), Rainer Bicker (Verl, Germany), Magnus Kortenjann (Telgte, Germany), Markus Drucker (Gutersloh, Germany), Steffen Lasner (Borgholzhausen, Germany), Benedikt Fechtel (Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany) and Marcel Zielke (Ennigerloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine and a method for operating the washing machine having a suds container for receiving water, a rib-free drum, which is rotatably mounted in the suds contai...