ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,799, issued on May 26, 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 having a cover and a laundry inlet extending through the cover, a tub disposed inside the cabinet to provide a space for storing water, a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the tub and stores laundry introduced into the laundry inlet therein, a mounting portion including a hub fixed to the cover, and a first mounting groove an...