US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on July 15 for "Systems and methods using image recognition processes for improved operation of a laundry appliance" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,361, issued on July 15, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods using image recognition processes for improved operation of a laundry appliance" was invented by Je Kwon Yoon (Seongnam, South Korea), Hyeonsoo Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Khalid Jamal Mashal (Louisville, Ky.) and Suzy Kwak (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining one or more images of the washing machine appliance from a camera assembly of a remote device and detecting a fiducial reference on a front portion of the washing machine appliance within the one or more images. The metho...