US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 23 for "Cleaner station" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,478, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cleaner station" was invented by Jeonghoon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Jungwan Ryu (Seoul, South Korea), Dongjae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Ingyu Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner station includes: a housing configured to receive a cleaner, a dust collecting motor that is accommodated in the housing and that is configured to generate a suction force for suctioning a foreign substance out of a dust bin of the cleaner, a dust storage module configured to, based on the dust collecting motor being operated, receive the f...