US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Dec. 30 for "Laundry treatment appliance and method of estimating drying time based on laundry load size" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,810, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry treatment appliance and method of estimating drying time based on laundry load size" was invented by Daniele Martinello (Nuremberg, Germany), Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.) and David Scott Dunn (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance includes a tub; a laundry basket rotatably mounted within the tub; a sensor positioned within the laundry basket; and a controller operably coupled to the sensor and configured to perform an operation. The operation includes detecting a load size of the...