ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,159, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Detergent supply device and laundry treatment apparatus having the same" was invented by Sungwoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Junghyun Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Kunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a detergent supply device including a drawer including a body having a first storage portion and a second storage portion, a first discharge valve configured to discharge a detergent from the first storage portion, and a second discharge valve configured to discharge a detergent from the second storage portion,...