ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,194, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry drying machine" was invented by Junghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Chanwoo Moon (Seoul, South Korea), Jihoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Youngmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry drying machine includes a cabinet, a drum that is rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and that defines an inner space configured to accommodate a subject to be dried, a driver configured to rotate the drum, a duct configured to supply air to the drum and to discharge the air from the drum, and an electrode part configured to form an e...