ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,189, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Dishwasher" was invented by Jin Tae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Chul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seokhyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jukwang Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dishwasher includes a tub, a sump, a wash pump, a rack, a nozzle disposed at a lower end of the rack, the nozzle being rotated by a force of wash water supplied from the wash pump and having a magnetic object coupled to one end of the nozzle so that a first pole and a second pole of the magnetic object face a rotation direction of the nozzle, a sensing m...