ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,844, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Hongjun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Ingeun Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Juhan Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus includes a drum body, a front cover, a rear cover, and a drum inlet port, a fixing panel spaced apart from the rear cover, a power transmission including a housing, an input shaft, an output shaft, a gear in the housing, and a motor including a stator and a rotor. The drum body, the rear cover, and the front cover...