US Patent Issued to Herbert Kannegiesser on Sept. 30 for "Method for preparing and/or monitoring the wet treatment of items of laundry" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,767, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Herbert Kannegiesser GmbH (Vlotho, Germany).

"Method for preparing and/or monitoring the wet treatment of items of laundry" was invented by Wilhelm Bringewatt (Lubbecke, Germany) and Engelbert Heinz (Vlotho, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing and/or monitoring the wet treatment of items of laundry wherein the items of laundry are counted using their electronic data carriers. An electronic data carrier of the item of laundry is determined. If more than a single electronic data carrier is detected, this indicates that there are multiple connected items of laundry whic...