US Patent Issued to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag on Feb. 17 for "Appliance with reliable information of a drying cycle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,173, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag (Stockholm).

"Appliance with reliable information of a drying cycle" was invented by Federico Del Maschio (Porcia, Italy) and Giorgio Pattarello (Porcia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance having a drying chamber for performing a drying cycle, a capacitive sensing arrangement within the drying chamber and configured to generate an electric signal indicative of a degree of humidity of a load contained in the drying chamber, and a control unit arranged for carrying out at least one among: estimating a mass of the load; estimating a residual humidity...