ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,500, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Integrated laundry processing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Dongsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Taewoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyemin Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment apparatus includes a washing machine module and a drying machine module that are integrally installed in a common cabinet, and a single drying module configured to produce dry hot air. The laundry treatment apparatus has a reduced product size and performs a method for drying laundry in a washing drum and a drying dru...