ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,529, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Junyoung Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet which has a storage space; a door which opens and closes the storage space; a detection device which is provided in the cabinet and detects the closing of the door; and a damping device which is provided on the door and reduces the closing speed of the door, in which the damping device is disposed at a position corresponding to the detection device and is in contact with the detection device when the door is closed."
The pat...