ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,838, issued on March 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Donghwan Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Myungshik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeaseok Seong (Seoul, South Korea), Sungkyong Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Junyi Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, and a laundry receiving space in the cabinet that provides a space for accommodate laundry. A laundry introduction opening in a front surface of the cabinet and communicating with the laundry receiving space, a door coupled to the cabinet and configured to...