ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,052, issued on June 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control method of dishwasher" was invented by Min Jae Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyung Man Park (Seoul, South Korea), Deok Won Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongkon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeong In Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a dishwasher including a tub configured to receive objects to be washed, a drying device configured to receive wet air from the tub and to discharge the wet air to an outside of the dishwasher, and a dry air supplier including a heating part and being configured to supply heated air t...