ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,317, issued on May 20, was assigned to WUXI LITTLE SWAN ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).

"Dispenser, water inlet system, and laundry treatment apparatus" was invented by Shengye Huang (Wuxi, China), Yaxin Zheng (Wuxi, China) and Jinyang Zhang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispenser, a water inlet system, and a laundry treatment apparatus. The dispenser includes a dispenser body; an X-shaped channel, the X-shaped channel being formed within the dispenser body, the X-shaped channel including a first channel and a second channel intersecting each other, the first channel including a first water inlet section and a first ...