ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,458, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Initiating a laundry treatment operation utilizing lighting sequences" was invented by MyungGeon Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Jongdeok Jang (Incheon, South Korea) and Jee Eun Oh (Anyang, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a laundry treatment appliance includes receiving an input command on the laundry treatment appliance; initiating a predetermined lighting sequence of at least one light source in response to receiving the input command; receiving a request for a remote connection from a remote device in response ...