ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,773, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ironing module including steam iron and laundry treating apparatus including the same" was invented by Sungmin Ye (Seoul, South Korea), Sungho Song (Seoul, South Korea), Jaemyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Bokyong Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an ironing module including a water supply tank that stores water therein, a steam generator that receives water from the water supply tank and heats water, a cable that transmits at least one of water and steam heated by the steam generator, and a st...