ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,769, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Kyong Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sangbok Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungwook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is designed considering pressure distribution around a cooling fan with respect to a fluid outlet of a frost detecting device provided for frosting detection, so that the design may be efficiently perform with respect to the frost detecting device and precise frosting detection may be performed."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/019,764.

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