ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,582, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Yunhi Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsun Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus including an outer case; an inner case disposed in the outer case and providing a laundry receiving space; a supply air hole communicating with the laundry receiving space; a heat exchange channel having an inlet end where air is introduced and a discharge end where the air is discharged; a heating device for heating air passing through the heat exchan...