ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,180, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Clothes treating apparatus" was invented by Yurim Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungoh Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihye Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yongbin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treating apparatus including a housing; a tub inside the housing; a drum configured to be rotated inside the tub; a spin-drying shaft connected to the drum; a motor assembly including a rotor configured to be rotated; a coupler: a first element; and a second element inside the coupler, wherein the coupler is posit...