ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,721, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Laundry treating apparatus" was invented by Juhan Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Donghyun Jin (Seoul, South Korea), Manseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehun Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum rotatably provided in the cabinet, a base disposed below the drum, a motor configured to provide power to rotate the drum, a heat exchange unit including a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, and a compressor, and a control box including a blower fan and a printed circuit board...