US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 21 for "Laundry appliance air filter with labyrinth seal" (Indiana, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,965, issued on July 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry appliance air filter with labyrinth seal" was invented by Marla Boado Encinosa (Borden, Ind.) and Alexander B. Leibman (Prospect, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air filter assembly for a laundry treatment appliance includes a filter compartment defining a filter receiving space, the filter compartment including an inner peripheral face and an insertion opening; a plurality of compartment ribs extending from the inner peripheral face of the filter compartment toward the filter receiving space; an air filter selectively receive...