ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,619, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Washing machine" was invented by Baekgyu Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Naeyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minhyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeonuk Na (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine including a cabinet, a tub disposed inside the cabinet, a drain pump configured to discharge water from the tub, a service port to be connectable to a service device and configured to receive or transmit error information of the washing machine therethrough when the service device is connected to the service po...