ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,396, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Jaepil Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoju Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungkwan Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jooyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a main body, a freezing compartment and a refrigerating compartment disposed inside the main body, an evaporator disposed in a cooling flow path and provided to supply cold air to the freezing compartment, a freezing compartment duct disposed in the freezing compartment to supply cold air generated by the evapo...