ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,798, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Joongil Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Kyuchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunseung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a cabinet including a panel input hole and a mounting panel, which has a panel-mounting hole; a drum which is rotatably provided in the cabinet to accommodate clothes, and has a drum input hole communicating with the panel input hole; a control circuit board positioned in the cabinet; and a window ha...