ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,542, issued on June 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for distinguishing container body of blender, and blender" was invented by Donghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seungje Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jea Shik Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method for distinguishing a container body seated on a main body of a blender, and the blender. The blender according to the present disclosure has arranged at the lower part of the container body a light source module for transmitting a light signal, and has arranged at the upper part of the main body a light reception mod...