ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,166, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothes treating apparatus having drying function" was invented by Hyuksoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seungphyo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Bio Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treating apparatus having a drying function includes: a cabinet; a drum provided within the cabinet; a heat-exchanger heat-exchanged with air exhausted from the drum; a lint filter disposed on an upstream side of the heat-exchanger with respect to flow of air exhausted from the drum to collect lint in the air; a spray tube spraying water to the l...