US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 25 for "Refrigerator" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,180, issued on March 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Kwanghyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage chamber, a door configured to open and close the storage chamber, a cooling device configured to cool the storage chamber, an elevation device configured to move a container in the storage chamber upward and downward, a locking device disposed at the elevation device and configured to, based on the elevation device being rotated about a front end of the elevation device in a folded state, lock the elevat...