US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Clothes care apparatus and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,960, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes care apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Joongwon Na (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kookjeong Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes care apparatus including an accommodating chamber to accommodate a target; a heat pump apparatus to dehumidify and heat air circulating through the accommodating chamber, the heat pump apparatus including a refrigerant pipe through which a refrigerant circulates and at least one of a compressor, a condenser, an expansion a...