US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Laundry treatment appliance and method of operating the same in a vacation mode" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,474, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry treatment appliance and method of operating the same in a vacation mode" was invented by David Scott Dunn (Louisville, Ky.) and Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet; a door movably coupled to the cabinet between an open position and a closed position; a tub provided within the cabinet; a heating system in fluid communication with the tub, the heating system comprising a heating element and a fan; and a controller operably coupled with the heating a...