ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,342, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothes treatment apparatus" was invented by Joongil Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Kyuchul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yulgi Jin (Seoul, South Korea) and Hansol Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a clothes treatment apparatus comprising: a cabinet having a cabinet body with one open side, a panel support part fixed to the cabinet body, a mounting panel fixed to the panel support part so as to close the one open side of the cabinet body, and a panel input hole penetrating the mounting panel; a drum which i...