Patent ID: 8881330

Claim:
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having multiple controllable components including a laundry treating chamber for receiving laundry to be treated, a treating chemistry dispensing system, and a controller controlling the multiple controllable components according to one or more treating cycles of operation that may be selected by a user, the method comprising: determining a selection of a cycle of operation requiring introduction of a treating chemistry to be dispensed by the treating chemistry dispensing system; determining an efficacious dose of treating chemistry to be introduced into the treating chamber based on a selected cycle of operation; determining a moisture content of the laundry in the treating chamber and providing the determined moisture content to the controller as an output; determining, by the controller, a non-deleterious concentration of the treating chemistry to be applied to the laundry in the treating chamber based on at least the moisture content output to the controller; introducing the treating chemistry at the non-deleterious concentration to the laundry treating chamber as part of the cycle of operation; and wherein the treating chemistry is introduced at the determined non-deleterious concentration to uniformly distribute the determined efficacious dose of treating chemistry onto the laundry.