ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,329, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vacuum adiabatic body and refrigerator" was invented by Hyeunsik Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Daewoong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Bongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum adiabatic body according to the present invention includes a supporting block which is fastened to an outer surface of any one plate placed outside the control space in a plate member which provides a wall of the vacuum adiabatic body. Accordingly, since the vacuum adiabatic bodies in a state of being not in contact with each other can be fastened to each ...