ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,591, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vacuum insulation panel, apparatus for manufacturing vacuum insulation panel, and method for manufacturing vacuum insulation panel" was invented by Seunghan Song (Seoul, South Korea), Byungjun Mun (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinwoo Shim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum insulation panel includes a panel assembly having a first panel having a transparent material, a second panel joined to the first panel, the second panel having a transparent material, a vacuum layer formed between the first panel and the second panel; and an exha...