ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,606, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Washing machine" was invented by Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kayeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Myunghun Im (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungchul Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Seonhwa Yu (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwanjin Jung (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine is configured to rotate a cylindrical drum formed by processing a metal sheet about a horizontal axis. The drum includes a lifter, formed by processing the metal sheet, respectively provided at a plurality of points spaced along a circum...