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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CM;
Inventors:
Christopher G. Hoppe, Louisville, KY (US);
Bryan T. Snook, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 33/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 33/00 (2013.01); D06F 2210/00 (2013.01); D06F 2212/02 (2013.01); D06F 2214/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A laundry treatment appliance, program product and method utilize a slider-based user interface to facilitate user selection of settings for a laundry treatment cycle. A slider-based user interface, for example, may include a fabric slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of fabric selections and a cycle modifier slider control that receives user input that selects from among a plurality of cycle modifier selections capable of increasing and/or decreasing various default settings associated with various fabric selections.