ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,613, issued on April 7, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Washing machine appliance having a removable agitator" was invented by Umesh Babu Gangadhari (Hyderabad, India) and Pavan Kumar Madeti (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine appliance may include a tub, a basket, an impeller base, and an extended post. The impeller base may include one or more impeller fins extending radially outward from the rotation axis, a mounting face disposed radially inward from the one or more impeller fins, and an impeller cap. The mounting face may include a central bracket defining a m...