ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,058, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and home appliance" was invented by Omin Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanghyun Cheon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet and a door. The door includes a door body filled with an insulator and a door panel detachably mounted on the door body. The door panel includes a panel defining a front appearance of the door, and a panel bracket disposed on a rear surface of the panel and including a mounting protrusion protruding rearward. The door body includes a cap deco that defines a portion of a pe...