MUMBAI, India, Oct. 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514097143 A) filed by Lg Electronics Inc. on October 08, 2025, for Control Method Of Laundry Treatment Apparatus.

Inventors include Hwang, Yangguk; Jung, Minseung; and Lee, Joseph.

The application for the patent was published on October 02, 2026, under issue no. 40/2026.

Abstract: ABSTRACT Provided herein is a control method of a laundry treatment apparatus including a drum, a flow passage, a blower, a heat exchanger including a compressor, a pressure regulator, a first heat exchanger, and a second heat exchanger, a water collector, and a steam generator. The control method may include a heating operation of increasing a temperature of the drum and a temperature of the flow passage by operating the blower and the heat exchanger, a waiting operation of maintaining the heat exchanger in an operation-terminated state after termination of the heating operation, a moisture supply operation of spraying, by the steam generator, steam into the flow passage after termination of the waiting operation, and a sterilization operation of circulating the steam inside the flow passage using the blower to sterilize the drum, the flow passage, the first heat exchanger, and the second heat exchanger.

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