ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,614, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Geonhui Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byeongwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangmin Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghun Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngchul Jo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a clothes treatment apparatus according to an embodiment including a cabinet, a tub disposed in the cabinet, and a detergent supply device configured to supply detergent into the tub, wherein the detergent supply device incl...