ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,852, issued on July 8, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp..

"Dish drying system with water harvesting hybrid nanomaterial" was invented by Muhammad Khizar (St. Joseph, Mich.), Mateusz Michal Wolowicz (Olawa County, Poland) and Philip J. Czarnecki (Saugatuck, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes a tub with an outlet for humid air to flow out from the tub, and an inlet for dry air to flow into the tub; and a drying system with an air circuit and an adsorbent component disposed between an air inlet and an air outlet in the air circuit. The adsorbent component includes a water harvesting nanomaterial for absorbing water ...