ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,173,948, issued on Dec. 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Doohee Goh (Seoul, South Korea), Seongjin Na (Seoul, South Korea), Changwoan Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Jaekoo Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongrak Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a storage space defined in a cabinet and a machine room arranged under the storage space. To implement a cooling system, a compressor, a condenser, and a heat dissipation fan are included in the machine room. In addition, a control module is provided in the machine room to face an outlet of the mac...