ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,876, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MIELE & CIE. KG (Guetersloh, Germany).
"Drum for a washing machine and washing machine" was invented by Dirk Sieding (Luenen, Germany), Marcel Zielke (Ennigerloh, Germany), Steffen Lasner (Borgholzhausen, Germany), Benedikt Fechtel (Rheda-Wiedenbrueck, Germany) and Alfons Eblenkamp (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum for a washing machine has a suds container, in which the drum can be rotatably mounted about a horizontal or inclined axis, including a cylindrical shell that is delimited by means of two opposite end walls, at least one driver element that is attached to the i...