ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,419, issued on Nov. 3, 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.) and Wayne E. Lawson (La Grange, Ky.).

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, an apron extension positioned on the top end of the apron and defining a mechanical compartment, wherein a rear wall of the apron extension extends past a rear wall of the apron along the transverse direction to define an overhang space under the apron extension ...