Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

General Electric Company

David C McCalpin

Brent Alden Junge

Michael Goodman Schroeder

Gregory Sergeevich Chernov

Michael F Finch

Natarajan Venkatakrishnan

Jianwu Li

Matthew R Hunter

Danister Abeygunawardana

Richard DeVos

Jordan Andrew Waymeyer

Timothy Ray Jackson

Ronald Gary Foster

Gregory Scott Carr

Michael C Watanabe

Paul Haney

Trent Daniel Jacobi

Peter Pepe

A free-standing appliance may include a cabinet, a water source, an icemaker, an ice bin, a cold water line, and one or more other features. The icemaker may be mounted within the cabinet downstream from the water source to receive water therefrom. The ice bin may be disposed within the cabinet downstream from the icemaker to receive ice therefrom. The cold water line may be mounted to the cabinet and define a cold water outlet downstream from the water source in fluid isolation from the icemaker.

Free-standing ice or beverage dispensing appliance

An indoor gardening appliance includes a liner defining a grow chamber and a grow module rotatably mounted within the grow chamber and defining a plurality of apertures for receiving a plurality of plant pods. A pollen pod is mounted to the grow module in one of the apertures and contains pollen for pollinating the plant pods to facilitate plant growth. A pollen ejection device, which may be a pressurized air nozzle or a protruding member for puncturing the pollen pod, is fixed to the liner or otherwise stationary relative to the pollen pod and is configured for engaging the pollen pod when the grow module rotates the pollen pod past the pollen ejection device to discharge and disperse pollen onto the plant pods.

Pollen distribution system for an indoor gardening appliance

An apparatus includes a memory device configured to store computer-readable instructions and data representative of at least an alert trigger time that represents a time before an end of an operating cycle of an appliance communicatively coupled to a home energy manager. The apparatus further includes a processor coupled to the memory device and configured to execute the computer-readable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine a remaining cycle time for the operating cycle of the appliance, compare the remaining cycle time to the alert trigger time stored in the memory device, generate an alert when the remaining cycle time is equal to the alert trigger time, and transmit the generated alert to at least one remote device.

Apparatus and method for transmitting operating cycle alerts

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

David C McCalpin