ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,990, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Semin Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Minji Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Joosik Jung (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treatment apparatus includes a first chamber for accommodating clothes, a second chamber under the first chamber, a blowing fan for suctioning air from the first chamber, a heat pump for compressing a refrigerant for heat exchange with the air suctioned by the blowing fan and discharging the heat-exchanged air to the first chamber, a ste...