US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on Sept. 23 for "Controlled moisture removal in a laundry treating appliance" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,646, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Controlled moisture removal in a laundry treating appliance" was invented by Barbara A. Balinksi (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Floyd G. Jackson (Baroda, Mich.) and Karl David McAllister (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining a...