US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on May 26 for "Image processing for an appliance" (American, Italian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,844, issued on May 26, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Image processing for an appliance" was invented by Mauro Bolognesi (Biandronno, Italy), Seth Douglas Herndon (Osceola, Ind.), Tolulope Adedapo Odetola (St. Joseph, Mich.), Mohammad Haghighat (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammad Nasir Uddin Laskar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Harshil Pareshbhai Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Saqib Nizam Shamsi (Najibabad, India) and Bereket Ayalneh Sharew (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing images of an appliance includes capturing, via an imaging device, an image of a cavity of the appliance. The method ...