ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,365, issued on July 15, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dryer appliance dry time estimation" was invented by Joshua Reeves (Louisville, Ky.), Dale Pleasant Pepoon (Taylorsville, Ky.) and Ryan James Scheckelhoff (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dryer appliance includes determining a remaining moisture content of a load of articles to be dried in the dryer appliance and estimating an energy requirement for drying the load of articles based on the determined remaining moisture content of the load of articles. The method also includes activating a heating syste...