US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on April 14 for "Foreign substrate collector for a laundry appliance" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,103, issued on April 14, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Foreign substrate collector for a laundry appliance" was invented by Grace K. Brown (Granger, Ind.), Mark Jason Christensen (Stevensville, Mich.), Heather Ann Hellmuth (St. Joseph, Mich.), Michael Adam Ledford (St. Joseph, Mich.), Meagan Kathleen VanderVelde (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Sander Brouwer (Comerio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a cabinet. A drum disposed within the cabinet and has an inner circumferential wall. At least one lifter is operably coupled to the inner circumferential wall of the drum. A motor is o...