US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Laundry appliance and drain pump housing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,477, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry appliance and drain pump housing" was invented by Alexander B. Leibman (Prospect, Ky.) and Sanjay Yadav Majjath (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a drain pump housing positioned in fluid communication with a tub mounted within an interior of a cabinet. The housing has a unitary, monolithic structure including a synthetic rubber material. The housing has a first opening, a second opening, and an interior wall forming a plenum positioned fluidly between the first opening and the second openi...