ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,771, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Object treatment apparatus" was invented by Daewoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongguen Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Minkyu Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Yuna Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Jaemyung Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunki Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Myounghoon Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Gul Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an object treating apparatus including a cabinet equipped with an inlet defined in a front surface, a door coupled to the cabinet so as to open and close the inlet, a first ...