US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 30 for "Washing machine" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,908, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine" was invented by Sangho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungsub Sim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongwoon Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a washing machine including a cabinet, a tub provided in the cabinet, a rotating tub rotatably provided in the tub, a shaft connected to rotate the rotating tub, a motor configured to rotate the shaft and including a rotor and a stator, a drip pan disposed at a lower end of the cabinet, and a friction member mounted on a lower end of the shaft an...