ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,433, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Clothes dryer" was invented by Hitoshi Minai (Yokohama, Japan), Toshifumi Hashimoto (Yokohama, Japan), Shigenori Hato (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryo Aoki (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a clothes dryer. The clothes dryer includes a drum configured to accommodate and dry clothes, and a lint removal device configured to remove lint in air flowing out of the drum. The lint removal device includes a filter part configured such that the lint is adhered thereto, and a screw rotatably disposed at an inn...