ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,276, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cleaner station with fixing unit" was invented by Hyunwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Daeho Chang (Seoul, South Korea) and Donggeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cleaner station including: a housing; a dust collecting motor configured to generate a suction force for sucking dust in a dust bin of a cleaner; a dust collecting part disposed at an upper side in a gravitational direction of the dust collecting motor; a coupling part including a coupling surface to which the cleaner is coupled; an...