US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Feb. 17 for "Recirculation hose routing for a laundry appliance" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,171, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Recirculation hose routing for a laundry appliance" was invented by Ajiket Patil (Maharashtra, India), Ryan James Van Zoest (Benton Harbor, Mich.), Chris Borlin (St. Joseph, Mich.), Mohsin M. Attar (Maharashtra, India) and John Meisner (Tiffin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance including a cabinet, a wash unit tub inside the cabinet, and a drum rotatably supported within the wash unit tub. The wash unit tub includes a front tub wall having a front tub opening. The drum defines a laundry compartment therein and includes a front drum ...