US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on May 5 for "Washing machine dry cycle efficacy prediction" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,190, issued on May 5, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Washing machine dry cycle efficacy prediction" was invented by Wonmyung Seo (Seongnam, South Korea) and Taehyun Yoon (Gyeonggi, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a washing machine appliance includes rotating a wash basket within the washing machine appliance and monitoring a humidity for a period of time while rotating the wash basket. The method also includes determining a slope of the monitored humidity over the period of time. In response to the determined slope being less than a minimum threshold, the method i...