ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,975, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerating system using non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant" was invented by Yongjoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Changho Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Kyeongyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Minho Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerating system may include a compressor configured to compress a non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant, a condenser configured to condense the compressed non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant, a three-way valve configured to branch the non-azeotropic mixed refrigerant condensed by the condenser, a first evaporat...