ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,770, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes dryer with a drum gasket" was invented by Changbae Yeom (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeik Cha (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeonwoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes dryer including an improved gasket structure to improve a drying performance. The clothes dryer includes a cabinet, a drum rotatable inside the cabinet, a frame positionable between the cabinet and the drum to support the drum, and a gasket positionable between the drum and the frame. The gasket includ...