ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,617, issued on April 7, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Laundry appliance having an impeller with a removable filtration structure" was invented by Mohsin Mahamadshafi Attar (Kolhapur, India), Adish Anil Barve (Pune, India), Joao Arthur Pazzin Curiel (Rio Claro, Brazil), Luiz Fernando Ferreira (Cordeiropolis, Brazil), Nimish Deodatta Kavishwar (Thane, India), Ajiket Jitendrasingh Patil (Aurangabad, India), Jonathan D. Pugh (Benton Harbor, Mich.), Adilson Correia da Silva (Itu, Brazil), Arthur Vasques Tosini (Santa Gertrudes, Brazil), Mahendra S. Wankhede (Pune, India) and Eric James Vasko (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....