ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,254, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pump with suction chamber impact body" was invented by Minsu Son (Seoul, South Korea), Seungjo Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Youjoon Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump housing having a suction chamber and a discharge chamber. A partition wall dividing the suction chamber and the discharge chamber, and having a communication hole formed at a center thereof for allowing the suction chamber to communicate with the discharge chamber. An impact body disposed toward a suction part so as to come into contact with fluid introduced i...