US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 24 for "Apparatus for treating laundry and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,881, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for treating laundry and control method thereof" was invented by Minji Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuksoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yeonju Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyeonjoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a laundry treating apparatus includes an air supplying step of supplying heated air to the drum through the heat exchange part and a first motion executing step executed while the air supplying step is in progress. The first motion executing step alternately executes a first acceleration m...