ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,374, issued on July 8, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Field weakening for BLDC stand mixer" was invented by Joseph Wilson Latham (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an appliance, such as a stand mixer appliance, is provided. In one example implementation, the method can include operating a motor of the stand mixer appliance in order to rotate a mixer shaft of the stand mixer appliance. The method can further include determining, via a controller of the stand mixer appliance, a difference between an operating parameter and an operating parameter threshold. The m...