US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Nov. 11 for "Determining calcification in a household appliance" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,891, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Determining calcification in a household appliance" was invented by Piotr Stanislaw Jakubowski (Wroclaw, Poland), Wojciech Andrzej Barczyk (Wroclaw, Poland) and Joanna Elzbieta Kochanowska (Jelenia Gora, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining calcification of at least a portion of a water heating assembly in a home appliance having a treating chamber. The method includes supplying heated water to the treating chamber via the water heating assembly. The water heating assembly includes a heating element that is selectively energized....