ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,427, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Washing apparatus and controlling method thereof" was invented by Seongdae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongnam Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyoungseop Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a washing apparatus including a power supply device is provided. The method includes controlling driving of a motor in a normal washing mode, determining temperature of the power supply device, controlling driving of the motor in an overheating prevention mode for reducing power consumption by the motor, ...