ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,185, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for operating a laundry treatment appliance to detect erroneous moisture levels" was invented by Joshua Reeves (Louisville, Ky.) and Ionelia Silvia Prajescu (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a laundry treatment appliance includes initiating a drying cycle, the drying cycle including a first goal value of a moisture goal of a laundry load; initiating a sensing process, the sensing process including measuring, via the moisture sensor, a first moisture level within a first predetermined t...