US Patent Issued to Henkel on June 30 for "Washing machine and methods for operating a washing machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,910, issued on June 30, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Washing machine and methods for operating a washing machine" was invented by Antonio Di Maggio (Schwaigern, Germany), Arnd Kessler (Monheim/Rhein, Germany), Ingo Hardacker (Hamminkeln, Germany) and Uwe Schaumann (Oberderdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine has a drum-receiving container with a round drum therein, wherein the inner shape of the drum-receiving container is not round cylindrical. The drum accordingly has a radial distance along the circumferential direction thereof from the drum-receiving container, wherein ...