US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 18 for "Optimized drying cycle in laundry appliances" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,682, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Optimized drying cycle in laundry appliances" was invented by Daniele Martinello (Nuremberg, Germany) and Jivko Ognianov Djerekarov (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes characterizing, by a laundry appliance, a first dry load size estimation of a load of articles in the laundry appliance, washing the load of articles in the laundry appliance, characterizing, by the laundry appliance, a wet load size estimation of the load of articles in the combination laundry appliance, determining a drying time for a drying op...