US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 23 for "Laundry fixture having an aluminum outer covering for reducing static electricity within a laundry appliance" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,650, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Laundry fixture having an aluminum outer covering for reducing static electricity within a laundry appliance" was invented by Wesley P. Traylor (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry fixture for reducing static electricity includes a substrate. An outer covering includes a woven aluminum fabric that is disposed on the substrate to form a three-dimensional shape. The woven aluminum fabric defining a static-reducing portion. A retaining portion is interspersed within the outer covering to form a particulate-capturing portion. The sta...