US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Oct. 14 for "Foreign particulate collector for a laundry appliance" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,125, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Foreign particulate collector for a laundry appliance" was invented by Ryan Robert Bellinger (St. Joseph, Mich.), Timothy Noah Blatchley (Stevensville, Mich.), Mark Jason Christensen (Stevensville, Mich.), Ryan Douglas Kuhn (St. Joseph, Mich.), Nolan Robert Maryanski (Stevensville, Mich.) and Wesley Paul Traylor (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a cabinet defining an opening. A drum is disposed within the cabinet and defines a processing space. A blower directs process air through an airflow path that includes...