ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,357, issued on July 15, was assigned to MONOTONY.AI INC. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Autonomous laundry washing and drying systems and methods" was invented by Noa M. Rensing (West Newton, Mass.), Benjamin D. Bixby (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Jesse Sielaff (Norfolk, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of load balancing a heat pump in fluid communication with a plurality of combination washing and drying machines are disclosed. A method of loading balancing the heat pump includes receiving, at a controller, a cycle status of each one of a plurality of combination washing and drying machines, identifying an available ma...