US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 16 for "Clothing treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,730, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Kihyuk Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeil Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Seonkyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Wookjun Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Semin Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet; a first clothing treatment chamber for accommodating clothes in the cabinet; a machine chamber for supplying steam or air to the first clothing treatment chamber; and a door assembly for opening and closing an opening. The do...