US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 22 for "Laundry treatment apparatus and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,428, issued on April 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treatment apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Woon Je Choe (Seoul, South Korea), Do Wan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Boo Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Jin Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of controlling a washing machine. The method includes receiving setting information for washing mode, sensing an amount of laundry put into the washing machine, transmitting the setting information for washing mode and information on the amount of laundry to a dryer, and transmitting preheating...