ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,190, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Washing machine" was invented by Osamu Kazama (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Katsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Sonoda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes a controller. The controller perform switching processing, by moving a moving part in an axial direction so that the moving part is switched from a start state in which one of a rotor-side fixing part and a stator-side fixing part engages with the moving part to an end state in which a remaining one of the rotor-side fixing part and the stator-s...