ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,947, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHANGHONG MEILING Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Stirring impeller type washing machine" was invented by Wenjie Xie (Hefei, China), Kehui Huang (Hefei, China), Shoutao Jia (Hefei, China), Junjie Fang (Hefei, China), Lujun Zhao (Hefei, China) and Xiaolong Ma (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a stirring impeller type washing machine including a washing machine body, a washing assembly, and a water level assembly. The washing assembly includes a mode switch and a program controller connected to each other, the program controller has at least two switching position...