US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 21 for "Sound dampening assembly for a washing machine appliance" (Indiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,961, issued on July 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sound dampening assembly for a washing machine appliance" was invented by Emily Wong (Hudson, Wis.), Heyner Loaisiga (Miami), Charanjot Singh (Leesburg, Va.), Cody Ewing (Floyds Knobs, Ind.), Aldo Vincent Kremmel (Palmyra, Ind.) and Rabha Bitat (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine appliance includes a cabinet, a wash tub positioned within the cabinet, a wash basket rotatably mounted within the wash tub and defining a wash chamber configured for receiving a load of clothes, a tub cover positioned over the wa...