ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,539, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Washing machine subwasher ground detection" was invented by Joshua Whittle (Georgetown, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for a washing machine appliance is provided. The control circuit includes a ground detection circuit configured to receive a test signal from a test ground path. The control circuit further includes a controller configured to determine a grounding state of a subwasher of the washing machine appliance based at least in part on the test signal. The test ground path operatively couples the ground detection...