ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,610, issued on April 7, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System for detecting the position of a washing machine subwasher" was invented by Nicholas Dillon (Louisville, Ky.) and Darrin Smith (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a subwasher suspended within a cabinet by one or more suspension elements, and one or more linear position sensors fixed to the cabinet for determining the position of the subwasher within the cabinet. A controller is configured to receive input from the one or more position sensors and determine the position of the subwasher from the posit...