ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,765, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Younghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sungwoon Jung (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, a tub disposed inside the cabinet and containing water therein, a first storage at least partially exposed to the outside of the cabinet and containing first detergent therein, and a second storage disposed inside the cabinet and containing second detergent therein. The second storage is in communication with the tub. The secon...