ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,363, issued on June 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cleaner station and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jeahyuk Wie (Seoul, South Korea), Sungjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ingyu Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cleaner station and a method of controlling the same, the method including: a dust bin fixing step of holding and fixing, by a fixing member of the cleaner station, a dust bin of a cleaner when the cleaner is coupled to the cleaner station; a door opening step of opening a door of the cleaner station when the dust bin i...