ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,918, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Gorenje d.o.o. (Velenje, Slovenia).
"Household appliance" was invented by Mikael Johansson (Gotene, Sweden) and Adrian Pauli (Vinninga, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a household appliance, the household appliance comprising: a washing chamber for washing of items to be cleaned; a water system configured to feed water to and from the washing chamber for cleaning and/or rinsing of the items therein; wherein the water system comprises a UV-treatment chamber for disinfection and/or sterilization of water to be fed to the washing chamber during operation of the househo...