ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,587, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Sanggyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Younseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongwon Dong (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator of the present embodiment comprises: a cabinet having a storage space; a refrigerator door which is rotatably connected to the cabinet by a hinge apparatus and opens and closes the storage space; an extension member which is drawn out from the cabinet and connected to the inside of the refrigerator door through a door opening spaced apart from the rotational center of the r...