ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,937, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothing management apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Sujin Seong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung-In Ma (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kisup Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yong Hoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sukyoung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing management apparatus including: a body including a reception space to accommodate clothes to be managed; an optical sensor; a door; a display arrangeable at one side of the door; and a processor which controls the optical sensor to emit ultra...