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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Applicant:
Midea Group Co., Ltd., Foshan, CN;
Inventors:
Russell Dietrich, Taylorsville, KY (US);
Bassam Fawaz, Louisville, KY (US);
Robert M. Digman, Goshen, KY (US);
Joel Boyer, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD., Guangdong, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/00 (2006.01); A47L 15/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L 15/0028 (2013.01); A47L 15/4244 (2013.01);
Abstract
A dishwasher includes a thermal imaging device configured to capture thermal images in a wash tub of the dishwasher and a controller configured to control the thermal imaging device to capture one or more thermal images of a utensil in the wash tub and to configure an operation of a wash cycle based upon a temperature of the utensil as determined from the thermal image.