ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,701, issued on March 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for determining and performing conditioning operations within a laundry treatment appliance" was invented by Ryan James Scheckelhoff (Louisville, Ky.) and Joshua Reeves (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a dryer appliance includes predicting a removal point at which a laundry load will be removed from the tub of the dryer, the removal point being a certain amount of time after the completion of a main drying operation, determining a length of time required to perform a conditioning operation on t...