ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,907, issued on June 30, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Detect wash additives in a washing machine appliance" was invented by Mark Banta (Pewee Valley, Ky.) and James Quentin Pollett (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a washing machine appliance includes initiating a rinse cycle of the washing machine appliance, operating a dispensing assembly to dispense wash fluid into the wash tub, obtaining a wash fluid turbidity of the wash fluid using the turbidity sensor, determining that a target volume of wash additive was added to the wash fluid based at least in par...