ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,913, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Subin Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inyong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chulhee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seongchan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes: an outer case forming an exterior of the refrigerator; an inner case disposed inside the outer case, forming a storage compartment therein, and having a communication hole formed through a side surface thereof; a partition supported by the inner case to partition the storage compa...