ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,382, issued on July 22, was assigned to BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Munich).
"Method for controlling a home appliance" was invented by Michael Rupp (Holzheim, Germany), Kai Paintner (Welden, Germany) and Kuldeep Narayan Singh (Dillingen a.d. Donau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a home appliance depending on a load includes taking a load image with an appliance camera, sending the image from the appliance to the server, processing the image on the server, and generating a processing result. Control data is determined on the server for controlling the appliance based on the result and is then sent to the app...