ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,157, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"System and method for appliance communication" was invented by Seonghoon Ryu (Suwon, South Korea) and Jaewon Jo (Bundang, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for appliance communication is provided, the system including a first and second appliance each including a short range radio communications device, an internet communications device, and a controller configured to execute operations. The operations include transmitting, from the first radio communications device to the second radio communications device, a r...