US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 3 for "Cleaner" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,300, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cleaner" was invented by Sangchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Changhwa Sun (Seoul, South Korea), Seungyeop Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungmin Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cleaner. A dust accommodation container according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a winding member. The winding member rotates inside the dust accommodation container and winds thin, long compressible waste, such as animal hair or fibers, which have flowed into the dust accommodation container. Accordingly, the space occupied...