ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,971, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothes treatment apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Seonghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Myoungjong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Manseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Ingeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Haeyoon Je (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification relates to a clothes treatment apparatus and a control method therefor, the apparatus comprising, in order to improve an air flow mechanism for circulating air to a drum, the drum for accommodating objects to be treated, an air circulation path connected...