ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,163, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Juhan Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjun An (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a laundry treating apparatus comprising: a cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and configured to receive laundry, and a driving part disposed at the rear plate and configured to provide a rotation force to the drum, wherein the rear plate includes: a driving part mounting portion, and an air flow portion surrounding ...