US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 23 for "Refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,595, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Woonkyu Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Soonho Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinhee Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a refrigerator; a lighting device provided in the storage chamber, a first door rotatably coupled to the case to open and close the storage chamber, an auxiliary storage chamber provided in the first door, a second door, a front panel formed of a transparent material, an evaporation treatment unit evaporated on an overall back surface of the front panel to transmit lights ...