US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 8 for "Laundry treating apparatus and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,139, issued on April 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Sunho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dongcheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a tub, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub, a rotator that is rotatably disposed on a bottom surface of the drum and includes a pillar extending inside the drum and a plurality of blades spaced apart from each other along a circumferential direction of the pillar and inclined with respect to a long...