US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 22 for "Electric pressure cooker discharging internal steam when lid is opened" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,354, issued on July 22, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electric pressure cooker discharging internal steam when lid is opened" was invented by Byungkyu Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeunsik Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Wan Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pressure cooker includes: a main body, an internal pot, a lid coupling ring configured to rotate relative to the main body, an internal lid that is disposed in the lid coupling ring and that defines a steam inlet, a steam discharge module configured to rotate relative to the internal lid and discharge steam; a lid handl...