ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,537, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Younghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Uikun Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongdeok Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet; a tub; a drum; a driving part; a rotary shaft connected to the drum; and a bearing housing, which is fixed to the tub and rotatably supports the rotary shaft. The driving part includes a stator that is coupled to the bearing housing and includes an input terminal positioned on one surface thereof facing the bearing housin...