US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 18 for "Water purifying apparatus and refrigerator having the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,210, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Water purifying apparatus and refrigerator having the same" was invented by Youngjae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Soongy Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Uison Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water purifying apparatus includes a head that is configured to couple to a filter and defines a water inlet and a water outlet, and a shaft provided inside the head, rotatably mounted between the water inlet and the water outlet, and having a filtering passage configured to connect the water inlet to the water outlet so that water introduced...