US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Feb. 25 for "Dishwasher with drain assembly" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,679, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Dishwasher with drain assembly" was invented by Mateusz Michal Wolowicz (Wroclaw, Poland), Pawel Krzysztof Kolodziej (Wroclaw, Poland) and Radoslaw Pawel Jonczyk (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, the dishwasher comprising a chassis, a tub supported by the chassis and at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving dishes, a structural element extending from the chassis along the tub and defining a socket; and a drain line extending between an inlet and an outle...