US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on March 18 for "Methods of monitoring the load state of a dishwashing appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,070, issued on March 18, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods of monitoring the load state of a dishwashing appliance" was invented by Haitian Hu (Louisville, Ky.), Adam Christopher Hofmann (Louisville, Ky.) and Hairong Li (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include detecting one or more insertion actions for a loading one or more articles into the dishwashing appliance and directing, subsequent to the detected insertion actions, a dishwasher cycle within the dishwashing appliance. The method may also include detecting, subsequent to the dishwasher cycle, one or more...