US Patent Issued to The Procter & Gamble on July 14 for "Washing apparatus with mechanical stabilizer" (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,213, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Procter & Gamble Co. (Cincinnati).

"Washing apparatus with mechanical stabilizer" was invented by Jason Matthew Orndorff (Lawrenceburg, Ind.), Matthew Stephen Bauer (Loveland, Ohio), Hua Hu (Mason, Ohio), Scott Eugene Mizer (Loveland, Ohio) and Kerry Lloyd Weaver (Florence, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing apparatus having an apparatus base, and a housing carried by the apparatus base. At least three feet are attached to the apparatus base, and an activatable foot is disposed opposite the at least three feet. The activatable foot is a spring-loaded foot that, when released, is p...