US Patent Issued to BSH Home Appliances, BSH Hausgerate on Dec. 23 for "Appliance management system" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,636, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Appliance management system" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance management system for facilitating the dispersal of parts of a chore among users may include an appliance configured to be controlled at least partially automatically according to a routine created by a primary user, who will be away from the appliance (e.g., out of the house) during at least part of the time the routine is being carried out. The routine includes at le...