ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,126, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Blender" was invented by Jeonghoon Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Jeahyuk Wie (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a blender. The blender includes: a body provided with a motor assembly; a container which is detachably mounted to the body and in which food is accommodated; a container seating portion which is provided on a top surface of the body and on which the container is seated; a body accommodation portion which is recessed in a bottom surface of the container so th...