ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,243, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Laundry treatment apparatus" was invented by Jeongyeon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seyoung Woo (Seoul, South Korea), Joonho Pyo (Seoul, South Korea) and Taehee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treatment apparatus includes: a tub, a drum rotatably provided in the tub, an agitator rotatably provided in the drum, a driver coupled to the tub and configured to provide power for rotating at least one of the drum or the agitator, and a clutch unit provided between the driver and the agitator to transmit the power from the driver...