ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,544, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Lint collection assembly for a dryer appliance" was invented by Alexander B. Leibman (Prospect, Ky.), Sasikumar Durairaj (Hyderabad, India) and Jay Pareshbhai Shinde (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer appliance includes a drum defining a chamber for receipt of clothes for drying, an air handler for urging a flow of air through the chamber, an exhaust conduit fluidly coupled to the chamber for discharging the flow of air, and a lint collection assembly operably coupled with the exhaust conduit. The lint collection assembl...