ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,719, issued on March 17, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Calibration cycles in washing machine appliances" was invented by Stannard Nathan Phelps (Louisville, Ky.), Stephen Edward Hettinger (Louisville, Ky.) and Nicholas Dillon (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for a drain cycle calibration in a washing machine appliance. The method includes receiving an activation signal of a calibration cycle, and performing the calibration cycle in response to the activation signal. The calibration cycle includes initializing a drain sequence of the washing machine appliance, measur...