ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,184, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cabinet device" was invented by Daehyun Yoo (Seoul, South Korea) and Geonwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cabinet device is proposed. The cabinet device has an upper surface assembly of which an upper surface is separately provided from an outer casing, and the bottom of the upper surface assembly is coupled to an upper surface of an inner casing. Therefore, the appearance design of the cabinet device is freely and easily changed in response to a user's need."

The patent was filed on June 14, 2022, under Application No. 18/...