ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,543, issued on Oct. 6.
"Autonomous laundry heat pump systems and methods of use" was invented by Noa M. Rensing (West Newton, Mass.), Jesse Sielaff (Norfolk, Mass.), Wynand Groenewald (Hartbeespoort, Canada) and Benjamin D. Bixby (Newton Highlands, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy efficient autonomous laundry system includes a plurality of combination washing and drying machines each one of which includes heated and cold side heat exchangers disposed in series within a dedicated closed air loop at each machine, a heat pump providing separate streams of heated and cooled fluid to the heat exchangers, one or more sensors d...