ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,427, issued on July 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Method of operating a dishwasher appliance to limit user involvement" was invented by Haitian Hu (Louisville, Ky.), Adam Hofmann (Louisville, Ky.) and Paul Newsom (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dishwasher appliance to limit user involvement includes receiving, via a user interface of the dishwasher appliance, an indication from a user to start operation of the dishwasher appliance. The method also includes implementing an operational mode for the dishwasher appliance based on one or more user pattern...