ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,416, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Water softening device and washing machine" was invented by Atsushi Ohyagi (Yokohama, Japan), Hitoshi Minai (Yokohama, Japan) and Tomoyuki Okuno (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine may include: a hardness component remover including a resin charging chamber between a downstream buffer space and an upstream buffer space and containing an ion-exchange resin; a saturated regeneration water generation vessel in which saturated regeneration water is to be generated; a regeneration water passage connecting the saturate...