US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on June 10 for "Controlling process air bypass around the drum in combo wash-dry system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,944, issued on June 10, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Controlling process air bypass around the drum in combo wash-dry system" was invented by Arun Rajendran (Saint Joseph, Mich.) and Roy Edward Masters Jr. (Saint Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination washer/dryer machine has a rotatable drum inside a cabinet. The drum has an external surface. A tub is positioned inside the cabinet. The drum is rotatable in the tub. The tub has an inner surface. A seal extends between the exterior surface of the drum and the inner surface of the tub forming a desired gap during washing operations and th...