ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,247, issued on Nov. 25, 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, a cloth cover and a top seat. The support column is connected to the machine base at a bottom, and the top seat is connected to a top of the support column. The cloth cover is provided between the machine base and the top seat to form a cavity...