ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,756, issued on July 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Dishwasher" was invented by Sunghun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Beomchul Park (Seoul, South Korea), Youngsoo Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Daegyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes a detergent supply device, in which the detergent supply device includes: a case mounted to one side of the door; a cartridge disposed in the case and storing a detergent solution; a connector body disposed in the case, connected to the cartridge, and having a discharge chamber temporarily storing the detergent solution discharged from th...