ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,605, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Clarified Inc. (San Francisco).
"Distributed networked laundry machine control and operation" was invented by Tristan Scott Patterson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, system and apparatus for the scheduling the retrieval, delivery and laundering of customer loads of laundry. The system may receive laundry service orders from customer, schedule couriers or delivery services for the transportation of bags of laundry from the customer to a washer located at a laundry facility. The washer may be located at a residential laundry facility or a commercial laundry facility. The syst...