ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,965, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Yunhi Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsun Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a dryer disposed in an indoor space; a washing machine vertically disposed with respect to the dryer; a refresher disposed on one side of the dryer and the washing machine; and a heating device heating air supplied to at least one of the dryer, the washing machine, and the refresher. The heating device includes a plurality of compressors, and c...