US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 21 for "Filter apparatus and clothes treating apparatus having the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,962, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Filter apparatus and clothes treating apparatus having the same" was invented by Kanghyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongpil Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaebok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter apparatus positionable outside a washing machine and connectable to a drain device of the washing machine, the filter apparatus including a filter case including a case inlet a case outlet; a filter detachably installable inside the filter case, the filter through which wate...