ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,913, issued on June 30, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Cabinet assembly for a combination laundry appliance" was invented by David Scott Dunn (Louisville, Ky.), Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.), Wayne E. Lawson (La Grange, Ky.), Sarah Heiniger (Louisville, Ky.) and David G. Beers (New Albany, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes an apron extending between a bottom end and a top end along the vertical direction, wherein the apron defines a plurality of mounting studs extending along the vertical direction from the top end of the apron, an apron extension po...