ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,214, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Drum-type washing machine" was invented by Yuichi Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan), Takahiro Nakashima (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Nishioka (Yokohama, Japan) and Hogyo Hoshiyama (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum-type washing machine including a casing having an inlet through which laundry is loaded and unloaded, a tub arrangeable in the casing so that while the tub is arranged in the casing, an inside of the tub is accessible through the inlet, the tub being able to store water, a drum arrangeable in the tub to rotate about an...