US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on May 6 for "Laundry treating apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,814, issued on May 6, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Hyojun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hongjun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jongmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunwoo Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Taewoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a drum for accommodating laundry therein. The drum may be directly coupled to a free end of a rotation shaft extending from a driver for providing power to rotate the drum."

The patent was filed on Sept. 3, 2021, under Application No. 17/466,733.

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