ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,879, issued on Feb. 24, 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) and Kangjin Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes: a cabinet including a rear plate at a rear surface, and a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and configured to receive laundry, the drum including a drum rear surface facing the rear plate. The rear plate provides an air flow portion that defines a flow space configured to receive air and that includes an opening at a front surface...