ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,036, issued on June 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Dongseong Kwag (Seoul, South Korea), Hag Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Mun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea) and Donghyok Yun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a cooking appliance including a door formed including a door upper surface part which covers an upper surface of a housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and covers a front surface of the housing, wherein an input part is disposed in the door front surface part."

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