US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 3 for "Appliances contactless remote activation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,409, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Appliances contactless remote activation" was invented by MyungGeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Minji Jeong (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an appliance includes transmitting, by a remote computing device, a first portion of an access code to the appliance and a second portion of the access code to a remote user interface device. The method also includes displaying the first portion of the access code on a display of the appliance and displaying at least part of the second portion of the access code...