US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Tracking personal items via laundry appliances reservation system" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,666, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Tracking personal items via laundry appliances reservation system" was invented by MyungGeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Keenan Gizzi (Black Mountain, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a lost item from a laundry appliance includes activating the laundry appliance in response to an input received from a remote user interface device associated with a first user account. Activating the laundry appliance includes performing a laundry treatment operation. The method also includes receiving an image of the lost item in ...