ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,582, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Suncheol Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Kyunghoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Younghan Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Inwoo Han (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus, which senses laundry weight through operation of a driving unit and, if the driving portion does not operate due to an overload and the like, pauses the sensing of the laundry weight until the overload is removed, and can display a temporary laundry weight value on the outside th...