ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,611, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Joongil Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Kyuchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunseung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hansol Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a cabinet made of a conductive material provided with a mounting panel in which a panel inlet and a button mounting part are formed; a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet to accommodate clothes and having a drum inlet communicating with the panel inlet; buttons m...