ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,539, issued on July 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Household appliances connection management" was invented by Janghwan Hahn (Louisville, Ky.), Anand Ashok Bora (Louisville, Ky.) and Chad Michael Helms (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household appliance includes a controller and a communication module. A method of operating the household appliance includes receiving a connection request from a first device and receiving a connection request from a second device. The method also includes looking up a connection priority database. The method further includes connecting to on...