US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for detecting failure modes of an ice maker appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,018, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for detecting failure modes of an ice maker appliance" was invented by Choonjae Ryu (Prospect, Ky.) and Jason Andrew May (Anchorage, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an ice maker appliance includes a step of directing a fill of liquid water to compartments of an ice tray. The method also includes a step of operating a harvest mechanism to harvest ice pieces formed within the compartments of the ice tray. The method may further include a step of sensing, with a sensor assembly, conditions of an ice ...