ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,059, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and transparent panel assembly for refrigerator" was invented by Seungjin Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaehoon Ha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a transparent panel assembly. The transparent panel assembly includes a front panel defining at least a part of a front appearance of a refrigerator door and made of a glass material, a rear panel defining at least a part of a rear appearance of the refrigerator door and made of a transparent material, and an intermediate member connected between the fro...