ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,452, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Yeeseok Bae (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum, a motor disposed at a rear of the drum, and a base that is disposed below the drum and defines a space configured to guide air circulating to the drum. The base includes an air circulating channel, a heat exchanger, a water collector body, a cleaning water channel, a pump, a channel switching valve, and a nozzle cover. The channel switching valve is connected to the pump and receives water f...