US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Aug. 25 for "Thermal storage mechanism for a laundry appliance that utilizes recovery heat and renewable energy sources" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,167, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Thermal storage mechanism for a laundry appliance that utilizes recovery heat and renewable energy sources" was invented by Christopher Aidan Hartnett (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a blower that directs process air through an airflow path. A rotating drum holds articles to be processed. A heat pump system has a condenser and an evaporator. The evaporator dehumidifies the process air that is delivered from the drum and the condenser heats the process air that is delivered from the evaporator. A thermal stor...