US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 22 for "Clothes dryer and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,281, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes dryer and method for controlling the same" was invented by Sangoh Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gawon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Injoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes dryer comprises a drum, a weight detection sensor, a moisture content detection sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a category for the drying item among a plurality of categories based on the weight of the drying item detected by the weight detection sensor and the residual moisture content infor...