US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Methods for operating domestic appliances including municipal water supplies" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,177, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for operating domestic appliances including municipal water supplies" was invented by Haitian Hu (Louisville, Ky.) and Hairong Li (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a domestic appliance including a water supply inlet, an ice maker, and a water storage tank fluidly connected with each of the water supply inlet and the ice maker includes receiving information from one or more remote sources relating to a quality of water from a municipal water supply to the water supply inlet; determining a health ad...