ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,347, issued on March 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Garment folding apparatus" was invented by Keunjoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeongyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment folding apparatus serves to fold a garment while conveying the garment. The garment folding apparatus includes a loading assembly configured to load a garment, a folding assembly configured to fold the loaded garment while conveying the garment, and an unloading assembly disposed below the folding assembly and configured to unload a completely folded garment. The folding assembly includes a first co...