ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,192, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Dishwasher" was invented by Kitae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungup Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher including: a cleaning chamber; a water tank which stores water in order to supply water to the cleaning chamber; a water softener which is connected to the water tank and to which a filter is mountable; and a regenerator which is connected to the water softener in order to regenerate the filter while the filter is mounted to th...