US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on June 30 for "Hardware detection and cycle behavior modification in laundry appliance applications" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,906, issued on June 30, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Hardware detection and cycle behavior modification in laundry appliance applications" was invented by Andrew Adkins (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Gregory R. Fulmer (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Eric W. Merrow (Benton Harbor, Mich.) and Thomas D. Spicer (Saint Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware detection in a laundry treatment appliance is provided. Data is received from the sensor providing data in relation to presence or absence of a removable agitator within the laundry treatment appliance. A configuration of the removable agitator with respect to...