ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,687, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc..
"Clothes folding machine" was invented by Aekyung Chae (Seoul, South Korea), Keunjoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chanwoo Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Choongho Lim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a clothes folding machine, which includes a case, a loading unit disposed at an upper portion of the case and conveying a clothes item gripped by grippers into the case, a folding unit including a longitudinal-line folder folding both sleeves of the clothes item conveyed by the loading unit in a width direction and a transverse-line folder longitudinall...