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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Barbara A. Balinski, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Jason L. Barr, Lawton, MI (US);
Andrew Leitert, Eau Claire, MI (US);
Karl David McAllister, Stevensville, MI (US);
James A. Oskins, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Matthew J. Quock, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Jamal O. Wilson, Stevensville, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of operating and a laundry treating appliance, including a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber into which laundry may be placed for treatment according to a cycle of operation, a processor programmed to at least as the laundry is being placed in the treating chamber, at least one of measure, sense, analytically determine, estimate, or receive as an input a first load size of the laundry in the treating chamber to define a determined first load size and select at least one of a color or an intensity corresponding to the determined first load size to define a first light setting.