ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,112, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Clothing treatment apparatus" was invented by Yunhi Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsun Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing treatment apparatus including a refresher having a third case disposed at least on one side of a washing machine and a dryer and having an inner space for receiving laundry, and a third door for opening and closing the third case, in which a display is disposed on a front surface of the third door, and displays an operation screen having a plurality of menu buttons...