US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on Aug. 25 for "Load detection and cycle modification in laundry appliance applications" (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,157, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Load detection and cycle modification in laundry appliance applications" was invented by Michael B. Daly (Watervliet, Mich.), Seth Herndon (Osceola, Ind.) and Bruce M. Wiatrak (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inferring the laundry cycle type for a load of laundry items is provided. Measurements are performed of a laundry load in a drum of a laundry appliance during a pre-rinse cycle, the measurements including one or more of an absorption ratio of the laundry load, a retention ratio of the laundry load, a dry mass of the laundry load, a ...