ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,425, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus and method for controlling clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Sunghoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Minji Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhyuk Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Yongji Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sunyong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Eunji Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyosoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a clothing treatment apparatus, in which a steam generator for generating steam includes a first heater and a second heate...