ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,369, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cleaner system and control method therefor" was invented by Heegu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Kietak Hyun (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeheon Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Daewoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cleaner system and a method of controlling the same, the cleaner system including a cleaner including a dust bin configured to collect dust, and a cleaner station to which the cleaner is coupled, in which the cleaner includes a suction motor configured to generate a suction force to the dust bin...