ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. RE50,664, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treatment apparatus" was invented by Jaemyung Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Wookjun Chung (Seoul, South Korea), Junghoi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Byeongkook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having a receiving space for reception of laundry, a feeder configured to feed at least one of air or moisture into the receiving space, a support structure placed in the receiving space, the support structure providing a support space to allow a surface of the laundry to be supported by ...