ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,196, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Washing machine" was invented by Hyounyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Geun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine including a bearing housing to rotatably support a shaft configured to drive the drum and insertable into the tub, the bearing housing including a stator coupling portion to which a stator of a drive motor configured to rotate the shaft is coupled, and a plurality of leg portions spaced apart along a circumferential direction of the stator couplin...