ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,968, issued on July 8, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Laundry appliance drum motor fault detection using a camera and artificial intelligence" was invented by Je Kwon Yoon (Seongnam Gyeonggi, South Korea) and Hyoyeol Maeng (Bucheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry appliance includes a camera for determining whether the drum is rotating during operation of the appliance. A controller is operably coupled to the camera. The controller is configured for obtaining one or more images of the drum during operation of the appliance. An artificial intelligence image recognition pro...