ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,320, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control method of clothes dryer" was invented by Haeyoon Je (Seoul, South Korea) and Ingeon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dryer includes a heat pump system provided as a heat source for heating air supplied to a drum. The dryer includes a controller configured to perform operations that include selecting one of a plurality of operation modes in which initial driving frequencies are different from one another and inputting a drying start command to the dryer by a user, checking an outer temperature and comparing the outer tempe...