US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 4 for "Laundry treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,585, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treatment apparatus" was invented by Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Semin Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhyuk Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Boram Noh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet having a laundry inlet, a first chamber positioned inside the cabinet, a second chamber positioned underneath the first chamber, a steamer disposed inside the second chamber to generate steam and supply the generated steam to the first chamber, a door pivotably coupled to the cabinet to open and clo...