ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,965, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Terminal device, dishwasher, terminal device control method, and dishwasher control method" was invented by Junho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minho Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher and a terminal device which creates a washing course to serve a purpose of use based on a user input and provides at least an expected amount of power to be supplied and an expected amount of water to be supplied for the created washing course. The terminal device includes a display for displaying an operating condition ...