ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,259, issued on March 24.

"Method for controlling a spin cycle of a washing machine and washing machine" was invented by Jordi Sans Serra (Gurb, Spain), Eudald Bover Capdevila (Vic, Spain) and Francisco Alonso Mora (Manlleu, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for controlling a spin cycle of a washing machine and washing machine comprising a suspended group (10) including a rotative drum (11) contained in a dampened enclosure (12) supported on a suspension mechanism (20), a two axes accelerometer (30) supported on the suspended group (10), the method comprises the steps of capturing and analyzing vibration data (40) relative ...