US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Feb. 17 for "Laundry treating appliance having a liquid distribution assembly" (Null, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,170, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Laundry treating appliance having a liquid distribution assembly" was invented by Tibor Budicky (Poprad, Slovak Republic), Bystrik Cervenka (Poprad, Slovak Republic), Crescenzo Iannicelli (Fabriano, Italy), Mauro Mancini (Fabriano, Italy), Jan Martinko (Poprad, Slovak Republic), Vladimir Olejar (Poprad, Slovak Republic) and Vaclav Petracek (Poprad, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating appliance is disclosed. The laundry treating appliance includes a tub having a tub side wall and a tub end wall defining a liquid chamber with ...