US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on June 17 for "Systems and methods for detecting objects on top of laundry treatment appliances" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,445, issued on June 17, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for detecting objects on top of laundry treatment appliances" was invented by MyungGeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry operation system includes a laundry treatment appliance including a cabinet defining an exterior surface; a camera directed at the exterior surface to capture one or more images of the exterior surface of the laundry treatment appliance; and a controller operably coupled to the camera, the controller configured to perform an operation. The operation includes obtaining ...