ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,376, issued on July 22, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for sabbath mode in air conditioning units" was invented by Vincent Kai Homman (Louisville, Ky.), Brian Bernard McKay (Louisville, Ky.), Jian Cui (Shanghai) and Kyle James Tear (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of Sabbath mode in an air conditioning unit includes receiving, at a controller of the air conditioning unit, a temperature signal from a temperature sensor, while in the Sabbath mode. Then determining that the temperature signal is one of above or below a threshold value, while in the Sabbath mode. Fol...