ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,582, issued on June 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Sangmyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to control a refrigerator includes changing a transparent display assembly to be in a first or transparent state allowing an inner space of the refrigerator to be visible through the transparent assembly, a second or opaque state so as to conceal the inner space, and a third or a display state to display information on a display of the transparent assembly. The transparent display assembly includes a front panel, a rear panel, an outer spacer configure...