ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,547, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Yasukiyo Murata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Morio Yoshimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door driving system and a refrigerator having the door driving system according to the present invention are provided with a motor, a power transmitting device for transmitting the power generated by the motor to the hinge, and an auxiliary device for receiving the power generated by the motor and generating an auxiliary force to move a door positioned in a closing position in an opening direction, so that th...