ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,405, issued on March 31, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for monitoring a reduced static feature in a laundry treatment appliance" was invented by Je Kwon Yoon (Hwaseong, South Korea), Dale Pleasant Pepoon (Taylorsville, Ky.) and Jason Fuchs (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a laundry treatment appliance including a chamber for receiving a laundry load and a water supply provided within the chamber includes determining a target moisture level of the laundry load; initiating a drying cycle of the laundry load, the drying cycle including a pri...