ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,550, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine and control method thereof" was invented by Doyeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sejun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungjin Choe (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeonghoon Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine including a cabinet; a tub arrangeable inside the cabinet; a drum rotatable inside the tub; a motor configured to generate power to rotate the drum; a ball balancer arrangeable in the drum; a damper to support the tub and configured to have a damping...