ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,985, issued on July 1, was assigned to TEXDREME ARASTIRMA GELISTIRME A.S. (Besiktas/Istanbul, Turkey).

"Washing machine water-free zones of the drum" was invented by Tulga Simsek (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine for performing wet, dry, physical or chemical treatments on materials includes a front loading or side loading perforated drum. The perforated drum may be mounted respectively by means of a drum shaft at the rear, or by means of drum shafts at both sides horizontally, or having an angle with a horizontal axis to a drum shaft bearing system so as to rotate around a central axis of the drum. The drum ma...