ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,177, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry treatment appliance and method of performing a post-cycle cleaning operation" was invented by Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet; a laundry assembly positioned within the cabinet, the laundry assembly including a wash tub and a drum rotatably provided within the wash tub; and a controller operably coupled with the drum, the controller configured to perform an operation. The operation includes determining that a predetermined laundry cycle of a la...