US Patent Issued to MIDEA GROUP on April 14 for "Laundry washing machine color composition analysis during loading" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,096, issued on April 14, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijiao, China).

"Laundry washing machine color composition analysis during loading" was invented by Phillip C. Hombroek (Prospect, Ky.), Abubakar Abukar (Louisville, Ky.) and Andrew Perry (Fort Mitchell, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry washing machine and method automate the selection of various operational settings for a wash cycle based in part on color composition data collected from a load of articles using a color detection sensor. In some instances, the capture of color composition data is triggered by detected weight changes sensed by a weight sensor...