ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,579, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Jihong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Wooseong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus including: a cabinet; a tub disposed inside the cabinet and providing a space in which water is stored; a drum rotatably provided inside the tub; and a pump having a supply port connected to the tub, and a discharge port connected to an outside of the cabinet is provided. The pump includes: a housing; a first chamber disposed inside the housing and communicating with the supply p...