US Patent Issued to Electrolux Consumer Products on March 17 for "Cleaning cycle for white laundry items" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,717, issued on March 17, was assigned to Electrolux Consumer Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cleaning cycle for white laundry items" was invented by Brian Hobbs (Charlotte, N.C.), Eduardo Palmeira (Charlotte, N.C.) and Flavio Bernardino (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry washing machine having configured to receive a laundry cycle selection from a user interface; identify the cycle selection; upon receiving a normal laundry cycle selection, select a respective program comprising default instructions for: opening the valve one or more times to fill the drum to a default normal maintenance phase liquid level, ...