ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,178, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes treating system and control method thereof" was invented by Eunkyeong Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minhwan Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungjong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a clothes treating system including a first clothes treating apparatus electrically connected to a second clothes treating apparatus, the method including obtaining information about an operation course of the first clothes treating apparatus and an operation course of ...