ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,066, issued on March 18, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Dishwasher with image-based diagnostics" was invented by Joel Boyer (Louisville, Ky.), Robert M. Digman (Goshen, Ky.), Russell Dietrich (Taylorsville, Ky.) and Bassam Fawaz (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes in part a controllably-movable sprayer and a controller coupled to the controllably-movable sprayer and configured to control the controllably-movable sprayer to spray fluid onto one or more utensils disposed in a wash tub during a wash cycle. The controller is also configured to control the controllably-movable ...