US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on May 27 for "Drain system for a laundry appliance" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,736, issued on May 27, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Drain system for a laundry appliance" was invented by Daniel A. Schurr (Wyoming, Mich.) and Michael Jon Vriezema (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drain system for a laundry appliance is provided. The laundry appliance may be configured as a clothes dryer having a heat exchanger to cool and condense moisture-laden air received from the laundry drum. The drain system utilizes a drain structure to catch condensate from the heat exchanger and evacuate the condensate to a sump area. A blower and blower channel moves the dry air from the heat...