ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,752, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Jinhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a packing member disposed between a case and a door and a fixing member which fixes the packing member to any one of the case and the door. The packing member and the fixing member are coupled in the form in which both sides in a front-rear direction of the fixing member inserted into the packing member are surrounded by the packing member."

The patent was filed on Jan. 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/579,754.

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