ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,547, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine and control method thereof" was invented by Seongil Hahm (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kanghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihyun Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangwon Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunsuk Bang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine according to an embodiment comprises: a drum; a motor configured to rotate the drum; a motor driver comprising circuitry configured to a drive current to the motor; a current sensor configured to sense the drive ...