US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 22 for "Washing machine and clothing treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,276, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Washing machine and clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Baekgyu Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangmin Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunyoung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Doyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub disposed within the cabinet, and a detergent supplier configured to supply detergent to the tub, wherein the detergent supplier includes a detergent container, and a detergent pump dockable with the detergent container, the detergent pump includes a f...