ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,575, issued on June 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Ki Hwang Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hee Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hwi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Woo Jin Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is proposed. In the refrigerator, a cool air passage for a freezing compartment which guides the flow of cool air to the freezing compartment, and a cool air passage for an ice-making compartment which guides the flow of cool air to the ice-making compartment partially share the cool air with each other. Through the sharing of cool air, the...