ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,953, issued on April 7, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).
"Dishwasher with dirt discharge system" was invented by Harald Disch (Elzach, Germany) and Martin Schrempp (Biberach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes a washing system configured as a recirculation loop and a dirt discharge system associated with the washing system. The dirt discharge system is associated with a separator apparatus configured so as to separate at least a portion of the washing liquid required to empty a dirt collection region of the dirt discharge system and discharged together with the dirt particles from t...