ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,725, 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), Sanghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Manseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet including a rear plate that defines a rear surface of the cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet and configured to accommodate laundry, an air supply disposed in the cabinet and configured to dehumidify air discharged from the drum and to supply the dehumidified air to the drum, and a d...