US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on March 25 for "Produce ripening detection in a refrigerator appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,182, issued on March 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Produce ripening detection in a refrigerator appliance" was invented by Reagan Murphy (Louisville, Ky.) and Michael Goodman Schroeder (Crestwood, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator appliance and a method of operating a refrigerator appliance to detect produce ripening. The refrigerator includes a camera assembly in a chilled chamber to obtain an image of a produce item and analyze the image for a ripeness value. Comparing the ripeness value of produce item to a predetermined value may be used to determine if the produce ite...