ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,459, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Jin Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juno Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangmin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gahyeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including an ice maker; an ice bucket including a first position guide; and a pad mountable to the ice bucket and including a base, an inclined member, and a second position guide. When the pad is being mounted to the ice bucket, the second position guide couples with the first position g...