ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,021, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Exterior material for home appliance" was invented by Minkyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dosoo Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyunghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdeog Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangjoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior material may be configured to form an exterior of a home appliance, the exterior material includes a base material having a hierarchical circular structure pattern on the surface. The hierarchical circular structure pattern may include a plurality of circula...