Whirlpool Corporation

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Richard J Hughes

Wyndham Fairchild Gary, Jr

Cristiano Vito Pastore

Christopher L Carpenter

Joshua George Abdoo

Alexander L Clayton

Donald John Gilmore

Bruce M Wiatrak

Seth Herndon

Hanks Hu

Collin Andrew Stipe

Vince Huang

Pallavi Manjrekar

Tracy Yu

Jack Li

Juan Chen

Roy Qiu

Andrea Ferrise

Joel Fletty

Ken Lei

Blake Cartwright

Nicholas Brenn

Casey L McCuan

Xiangxu Liu

Dick Ge

Neomar Giacomini

Brandon Lynn Satanek

Wen Shi

Peter J Melsa

Michael J Jakeway

Xiangxu Li

Christopher W Kelson

Saket Singh

Casey L Mccuan

Andrew Benedict Artis

A cooking appliance having a cabinet including an insert within the cabinet to define cooking chamber with an access opening and a door selectively closing/opening the access opening, the cooking appliance comprising at least one of a first cooling flow path through a back wall of the cabinet, over a top wall of the insert, and out a side wall of the cabinet, a second cooling flow path through a bottom wall of the cabinet, along the bottom wall of the cabinet, and out a side wall of the cabinet, and a third cooling flow path through a bottom wall of the cabinet, out a front wall of the cabinet, into the door, out of the door, into a front wall of the cabinet, and out of a side wall of the cabinet.

Automatic oven

An automatic oven having a controller and a sensor assembly for automatically determining a food type for a food item placed in a cooking chamber of the automatic oven, and cooks the automatically determined food item according to a cooking profile selected based on the determined food type, while optionally accommodating a user input on the determining of the food type, and the cooking profile, including an optional degree of doneness.

A system for controlling a plurality of appliances is disclosed. The appliances comprise a plurality of controllers in communication with a mobile device. Each of the controllers is configured to receive an instruction from the mobile device corresponding to a selected mode of a plurality of modes and apply the selected mode among the plurality of appliances as a selected global setting of a plurality of available global settings. The controller is further operable to activate an appliance specific control routine for each of the plurality of appliances based on the selected global setting and control each appliance based on the appliance specific control routine. The appliance specific control routine comprises a plurality of controls configured control an operation of each of the appliances causing the operation to conform to the selected mode.

Coordination of control modes among appliances and utilities

Example appliances that trigger applications on consumer devices based on user proximity to appliance background are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes an appliance to detect a proximity of a user to the appliance, a remote server to receive a result of the proximity detection from the appliance, and to send an application trigger based on the result, and a user device associated with the user to activate an application on the user device in response to the application trigger received from the remote server.

Appliances that trigger applications on consumer devices based on user proximity to appliance

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Coloma, MI, United States of America

Richard J Hughes