ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,209, issued on May 6, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Blender" was invented by Seungje Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jea Shik Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Younseok Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a blender in which when the closure of a container lid of a container body is detected, a main body operates. In the blender, when the closure of the container lid of the container body is detected, power is transmitted from a first induction coil of the main body to a second induction coil of the container body, and by using the power transmitted to the second induction coil, an el...