ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,704, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Jeonggil Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage chamber, a drawer door, a motor assembly provided at the storage chamber and configured to provide a driving force that moves the drawer door relative to the storage chamber, and a rack gear assembly provided at the drawer door and having an extendable rack gear. The rack gear includes a fixed rack fixed to the drawer door and a moving rack slidably coupled to the fixed rack. The drawer door includes a drawe...