US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 23 for "Laundry treating apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,764, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Sungwoon Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Younghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet having a top cover with a laundry inlet defined therein, a tub disposed inside the cabinet to store water therein, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub and storing laundry therein, a mounting portion disposed on the top cover to be exposed to the outside, a storage detachably coupled to the mounting portion and storing deter...