ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,510, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Clothes treating apparatus" was invented by Dohyung Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jichang Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngsun Shin (Suwon-s, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothes treating apparatus includes a main body having an inlet port on a front surface of the main body, a tub, and a door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and dose the inlet port. The door includes a door body, a plate that covers a side of the door body, a pattern layer between the plate and the door body and including an optical pattern tha...