US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 27 for "Drum-type washing machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,548, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Drum-type washing machine" was invented by Atsushi Ohyagi (Yokohama, Japan), Yasushi Urai (Yokohama, Japan) and Takuro Sakamaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine including a housing; a tub in the housing; a rotatable drum in the tub; and a plurality of leg portions couplable to the housing to support the housing on a mounting surface, wherein each leg portion includes a support leg, a reinforcement bracket couplable to a lower surface of the housing, and a weight measurement device couplable to the reinforcem...