US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on May 12 for "Dryer appliance user interface for optimizing drying time" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,496, issued on May 12, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Dryer appliance user interface for optimizing drying time" was invented by MyungGeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngmin Han (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dryer appliance includes obtaining an image of a drum of the dryer appliance and a load of articles therein. The image of the drum may be obtained by a remote user interface device. The method further includes detecting a load type of the load of articles in the drum. The load type detected may be based on the image of the drum. The method ...