US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on May 13 for "Methods for facilitating the return of lost articles within a laundry appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,576, issued on May 13, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for facilitating the return of lost articles within a laundry appliance" was invented by Myunggeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Jongdeok Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jee Eun Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a two-dimensional image of a laundry chamber and identifying a laundry article based on the received two-dimensional image. The method may further include selecting a prior-user profile corresponding to the laundry appliance in response to identifying the laundry article and dire...