ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,079, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Juhan Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Junghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drum configured to receive laundry. The drum includes a cylindrical drum body and a rear cover defining a rear surface of the drum. The rear cover includes a plurality of rear-cover-reinforcing ribs that radially extend from a center of the rear cover and are connected to a periphery of the rear cover. The laundry treatment apparatus is ...