ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,862, issued on April 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Donghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Wookyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sunggyun Son (Seoul, South Korea), Donghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seungseob Yeom (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjun Bae (Seoul, South Korea) and Chongyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The refrigerator according to the present invention may comprise: a first tray assembly forming a part of ice-making cells; and a second tray assembly forming the other part of the ice-making cells. In order that ice can be produced in the directi...