ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,696, issued on March 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry treatment appliance and method of identifying a laundry treatment appliance" was invented by Efren Rodriguez (Louisville, Ky.) and Jason Fuchs (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment appliance includes a cabinet defining a receiving space, a tub provided within the receiving space, a user interface provided on the cabinet, the user interface including one or more indicators, and a controller operably coupled to the user interface, the controller comprising a wireless communication module, the controller...