US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 30 for "Washing machine drive system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,911, issued on June 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Washing machine drive system" was invented by Junyoung Song (Seoul, South Korea), Youngchan Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Hyounguk Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Seungsuk Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyeonghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine drive system is provided. A washing machine drive system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a housing, a motor stator coupled to the housing, a rotor facing the motor stator, an output shaft bearing-coupled to the housing, a planetary gear set coupled to the ro...