US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 20 for "Clothing treatment apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,179, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Jihong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Minkyu Sang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus includes a tub; a drum extending in a cylindrical shape, capable of being opened upward, and rotatably disposed in the tub; a balancer fixed to an upper portion the drum, extending along a circumference of the drum, and providing a channel communicating with an inner space of the drum; and a chamber formed inside the balancer and extending along the balancer. The chamber includes...