US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 25 for "System and method for sanitizing objects in an indoor gardening appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,697, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for sanitizing objects in an indoor gardening appliance" was invented by Jose Rafael Padron (Louisville, Ky.) and Kira Lynn Hartlage (Crestwood, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sanitizing objects within a gardening appliance includes: positioning at least one object on a grow tower of the gardening appliance; during a sanitization cycle, rotating the grow tower such that the at least one object on the grow tower is exposed to an ultraviolet assembly of the gardening appliance; activating the ultraviolet ass...