ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,833, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).
"Washing machine and control method therefor" was invented by Sheng Xu (Qingdao, China) and Yanfen Lv (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes: a water holding barrel; a circulation filtration pipeline, of which a water inlet end and a water outlet end of the circulation filtration pipeline are respectively connected with the water holding barrel; a filter device, arranged in the circulation filtration pipeline, and having a water inlet, a filtered water outle...