ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,334, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator and home appliance" was invented by Yonghyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sanghyun Cheon (Seoul, South Korea) and Changjae Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home appliance includes a refrigerator. The home appliance includes a cabinet configured to define a storage space with a front surface opened, a door configured to open and close the storage space, and a speaker disposed on a top surface of the cabinet and configured to communicate with an external device, where the speaker includes a sound output portion configured...