ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,324, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothing classification apparatus and clothing organizing apparatus including same" was invented by Daesoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngjae Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing classification apparatus includes: a first roller; a second roller arranged to face the first roller; a driving device rotating the first and second rollers in different directions; sensors for sensing positions of clothes in each of the upper and lower areas of the first and second rollers;...