US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 21 for "Ice maker for refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,174, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ice maker for refrigerator" was invented by Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinil Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunji Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice maker includes an upper assembly including a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers, a lower assembly disposed below and pivotally coupled relative to the upper assembly, wherein the lower assembly includes a plurality of hemispherical lower chambers, a driver configured to pivot the lower assembly, a pair of rotating parts disposed at both sides of the lower assembly...