US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on March 25 for "Heat exchanger cleaning system for laundry appliance" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,699, issued on March 25, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Heat exchanger cleaning system for laundry appliance" was invented by Arun Rajendran (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance may include a blower configured to deliver exhausted air through an airflow path, a heat exchanger arranged within the airflow path and configured to dehumidify the exhausted air, a drain channel configured to receive condensate from the heat exchanger, a cleaning block arranged above the heat exchanger and configured to deliver fluid flow over the heat exchanger to clean the heat exchanger."

The pa...