ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,677, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Yeongsu Yun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a refrigerator case, a freezer case disposed below the refrigerator case, a door disposed at a front of the refrigerator case, an ice maker disposed at the door, an evaporator disposed at a rear of the freezer case, an ice maker supply duct supplying the cold air to the ice maker, and an ice maker return duct supplying the cold air from the ice maker to the freezer compartment. An upper portion of the ice maker return duct extends from a...