US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on Feb. 24 for "Pet hair filter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,878, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Pet hair filter" was invented by Seth E. Bixby (Stevensville, Mich.), Sayer J. Murphy (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Thomas D. Spicer (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Eric J. Vasko (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Heather A. Hellmuth (St. Joseph, Mich.), Michael A. Ledford (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Meagan K. Vandervelde (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A removable fluid pumping and filtration apparatus for a laundry treatment machine is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of selectively attachable and detachable stackable sections, the sections including a h...