ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,857, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Dongwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Juho Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Juhye An (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a door configured to open and close the storage space, a hinge rotatably coupling the door to the cabinet, and a reinforcement member provided at a first side opposite to the hinge among left and right sides of a lower surface of the cabinet and configured to block deformation of the cabinet."
The patent was filed on May 31, 2023, under ...