US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 1 for "Refrigerator having panel assembly" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,466, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator having panel assembly" was invented by Hyungkyu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jongpil Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Cheoljun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a refrigerator and a control method thereof. The refrigerator is characterized by enabling at least a part of a refrigerator door to be selectively transparent by a user's operation, such that the user sees through an inside of the refrigerator while the refrigerator door is closed."

The patent was filed on May 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/670,266....