US 12,454,783 B2
Laundry treating appliance and method of operation
Richard L. Hammond, Mattawan, MI (US); David Adrian Moelker, Zeeland, MI (US); and Luke John Paul, Jenison, MI (US)
Assigned to Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US)
Filed by WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, Benton Harbor, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/541,861.
Application 18/541,861 is a division of application No. 16/828,552, filed on Mar. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,885,058.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/835,740, filed on Apr. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0125033 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. D06F 34/18 (2020.01); D06F 33/44 (2020.01); D06F 93/00 (2006.01); D06F 103/02 (2020.01); D06F 105/56 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 34/18 (2020.02) [D06F 33/44 (2020.02); D06F 93/005 (2013.01); D06F 2103/02 (2020.02); D06F 2105/56 (2020.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry items according to a cycle of operation, the method comprising:
rotating a rotatable treating chamber containing laundry items having RFID tags;
receiving, by an antenna, RFID data from the RFID tags on the laundry items;
processing, by a controller communicably coupled with the antenna, the RFID data to distinguish between RFID tags that are moving and RFID tags that are stationary;
ignoring RFID data from the stationary RFID tags; and
suggesting, altering, or implementing the cycle of operation based on the RFID data from the moving RFID tags.