D06F 58/46
Control of the operating time
D06F58/46 (Control of the operating time) appears on 94 US grants and 133 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 94
- Published applications
- 133
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 327
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2025 | 16 | 8 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Drying control method for cleaning apparatus, and cleaning apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258597 A1Dreame Innovation Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
- Sports Equipment Drying Device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0234860 A1
- Apparatus for treating laundry and control method thereof28 May 2026US 2026/0146382 A1LG Electronics Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Drying mode for automatic clothes dryer51US 7,594,343 B2Whirlpool Corporation · 2009
- Drying machine47US 4,738,034 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1988
- Systems and methods for determining drying time for a clothes dryer43US 6,122,840 AGeneral Electric Company · 2000
- System and method for controlling a dryer appliance39US 6,845,290 B1General Electric Company · 2005
- Self programming clothes dryer system37US 6,519,871 B2Maytag Corporation · 2003