US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Dec. 2 for "Clothing treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,604, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Sungjun Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hunjun Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet; a tub provided inside the cabinet; a drum rotatably provided inside the tub and accommodating laundry therein; a detergent supplier coupled to the tub and supplying detergent to the tub by driving a detergent pump connected to a first detergent container and a second detergent container in which detergent is stored; and a controller that, when the detergent st...