ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,057, issued on June 3, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and Haier Smart Home Co. Ltd. (Qingdao, China).

"Control method for clothes drying apparatus" was invented by Zhaobin Du (Qingdao, China), Lina Wang (Qingdao, China), Longping Yao (Qingdao, China), Yijun Song (Qingdao, China) and Hongbiao Ma (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a clothes drying apparatus that aims to solve the problem of a load being prone to entangling when an existing clothes drying apparatus is used for drying a large load. For this purpose, the control method for a clothes drying apparatus ...