ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,278, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag (Stockholm).

"Method of controlling operation of an appliance" was invented by Alexandre Barros Neves (Stockholm), Luis Michio Kobayashi (Stockholm) and Anne-Kathrine Nissen (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling operation of an appliance, comprising: presenting at a user interface, an option to change an operating program of the appliance; operating the appliance according a selected change of the operating program; displaying, on the user interface, an indicator representing the change in the operating program; and displaying, on t...