ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,049, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Washing machine" was invented by Jaehyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Yohwan Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunjae Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump for circulating water from the tub, a gasket connecting an entry hole of the casing to an entrance hole of the tub and including nozzles for spraying water to the drum, and outlet ports for supplying water to the nozzles. The nozzles are arranged at an inner surface of the gasket at both lateral sides of the gasket in a vertical ...