ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,135, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Ice maker and refrigerator" was invented by Jinil Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungjin Choi (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice maker of the present embodiment comprises: an upper tray including an upper tray body defining an upper chamber that is a portion of an ice chamber for generating ice; and a lower tray rotated relative to the upper tray based on a rotational center, and including a lower tray body defining a lower chamber that is another portion of the ice chamber, wherein a top surfac...