ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,184, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Laundry assembly and method for controlling a connected laundry appliance of the laundry assembly" was invented by Ryan Hartlage (Crestwood, Ky.) and Jose Efren Rodriguez Munoz (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment assembly includes a washing machine appliance including a user interface and a dryer appliance, the dryer appliance including a dryer wireless communication module and a dryer controller operably coupled to the dryer wireless communication module, the dryer controller being configured to perform an o...