ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,186, issued on May 5, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treatment apparatus" was invented by Juhan Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjun An (Seoul, South Korea) and Namyeong Heo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a laundry treatment apparatus, including a cabinet, a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry, having a cylindrical shape, having one side open so as to define an input opening, and having another side defining a drum rear plate, a driving portion having a drum rotating shaft coupled to the drum rear plate so as to provide power to ...