ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,976, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co. Ltd. (Zhangzhou, China).

"Clothing care machine" was invented by Zhenxing Zheng (Fujian, China), Ronghuang Chen (Fujian, China), Ruifeng Cai (Fujian, China) and Xiaodong Xu (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a clothing care machine, including a machine base, a support column and an upper part. A bottom of the support column is connected to the machine base, and the upper part is connected to a top of the support column. The machine base is provided with at least one of a steam outlet and a hot air outlet. When in u...