ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,218, issued on June 2, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dispensing assembly for a washing machine appliance" was invented by Todd Anthony Reger (Crestwood, Ky.) and Erick Flores Islas (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine appliance includes a wash tub positioned within a cabinet and defining a wash chamber, a wash basket rotatably mounted within the wash tub for receiving a load of clothes, and a dispensing assembly mounted within the cabinet for selectively adding wash fluid into the wash tub. The dispensing assembly includes a dispenser housing fluidly coupled to the ...