ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,769, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Gutersloh, Germany).

"Method and control unit for carrying out a spin-dry program for a cleaning appliance, and cleaning appliance" was invented by Marcel Zielke (Ennigerloh, Germany), Magnus Kortenjann (Telgte, Germany), Dirk Sieding (Lunen, Germany), Markus Drucker (Gutersloh, Germany), Benedikt Fechtel (Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany), Steffen Lasner (Borgholzhausen, Germany), Rainer Bicker (Verl, Germany) and Uwe Femmer (Gutersloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for executing a spin program for a cleaning appliance having a rotatable, non-ribbed drum. A first...