US Patent Issued to ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG on June 23 for "Voltage phase detection for a laundry appliance" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,448, issued on June 23, was assigned to ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG (Stockholm).

"Voltage phase detection for a laundry appliance" was invented by Brandon King (Charlotte, N.C.), Pavan Honnegowda (Charlotte, N.C.), Sunghoon Kim (Charlotte, N.C.) and Philipp Kratzsch (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry machine comprising: a drum; a motor to rotate the drum; electric heating element(s) configured to produce heat; an airflow path from the heating element(s) to the drum; an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to sample an AC voltage from a first power line of a group of power lines connected to the mac...