US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 1 for "Automatic self-clean cycle prior to drying cycle in a laundry appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,982, issued on July 1, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Automatic self-clean cycle prior to drying cycle in a laundry appliance" was invented by Je Kwon Yoon (Seongnam, South Korea), Seonghoon Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Wonmyung Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jaewon Jo (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a drum rotatably mounted within a cabinet and defining a chamber configured for receiving a load of clothes, a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet for providing selective access to the chamber, and a user interface for controlling operation of...