ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,471, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine and controlling method of washing machine" was invented by Youngjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kanghyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongpil Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeryong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes: a housing; a tub inside the housing; a case connected with the tub; a filter attachable to or detachable from the case; a filtering flow path formed to pass through a portion of the filter; a bypass flow path formed to bypass the portion of the filter; and at...