ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,179, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Sungdeuk Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngmin Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongman Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungho Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hojun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a refrigerator including a main body including a storeroom, a door body arranged to open or close the storeroom, a decoration panel coupled to a front side of the door body, and a holder mounted on the front side of the door body to be coupl...