ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,244, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine, control method therefor and control panel therefore" was invented by Seunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sugkil Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes a drum, a drum motor coupled to the drum; a driving circuit and a processor. The driving circuit is configured to supply a driving current to the drum motor so that the drum motor rotates. The processor is configured to control the driving circuit to accelerate the drum motor from the fi...