ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,364, issued on July 15.

"Clothes dryer using LED light source" was invented by Kyoung Sook Jang (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes dryer using an LED light source is proposed. Instead of using a heater, a blowing fan, and a heat exchanger, the clothes dryer employs a plurality of LED light source modules provided in a body and efficiently arranged therein and an air circulation structure of an air circulation part having a blowing fan arranged in the inner rear side thereof, and is configured to sterilize air through an air sterilization part, absorb and dry moisture by a ceramic filter, and then finall...