ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,726, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine and method for controlling the same" was invented by Sungmo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junhyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes: a drum configured to be rotatable inside a tub; a motor including a stator and a rotor, and configured to rotate the drum; an inverter circuit connected to the motor; and at least one processor configured to compensate for a q-axis current command value of the motor based on an mth-order harmonic component (m is a natural number) and a posit...