ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,837, issued on March 18, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dryer appliance load detection" was invented by Joshua Reeves (Louisville, Ky.) and Ionelia Silvia Prajescu (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dryer appliance includes activating a heating system of the dryer appliance and tracking an energy output of the heating system. The method also includes determining a load score of a load of articles to be dried in the dryer appliance based on the tracked energy output and determining a termination criterion for a dry operation of the dryer appliance based on t...