ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,014, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA WASHING APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Method for determining dosage of detergent, dishwasher, processor, and storage medium" was invented by Caixia Wang (Foshan, China), Feibao Zhang (Foshan, China), Zhiheng Fan (Foshan, China) and Yongbing Quan (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the usage amount of detergent, and a dishwasher, a processor, a storage medium and a computer program product. The method for determining the usage amount of detergent includes acquiring an internal image of a dishwasher captured by an image ac...