ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,191, issued on May 5, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Adaptive scent dispensing for dryer appliance based on input from linked washer appliance" was invented by Jaewon Jo (Seongnam, South Korea), Seong Hoon Ryu (Suwon, South Korea), Han Young Kim (Seongnam, South Korea), Jisoo Kim (Seongnam, South Korea) and Je Kwon Yoon (Hwaseong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer appliance and a method of operating a dryer appliance are provided. The dryer includes a drum defining a drying chamber rotatably mounted within a cabinet, an additive dispensing assembly to provide a dryer additive to ...