US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on June 23 for "Method and system for drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance" (Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,762, issued on June 23, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Method and system for drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance" was invented by James P. Carow (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Moeed Mukhtar (Horseheads, N.Y.) and Sanjida Tamanna (Saint Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance. The laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber in which the laundry is received for drying. The method comprising supplying air to the treating chamber, exhausting the supplied air from the treating chamber, actuating a heater to a first temperature...