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. 12,686,963, 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 Dongpil Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kanghyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaebok Lee (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 configured so that, with the filter apparatus connected to the drain device, water from the drain de...