ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,977, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Food waste disposer" was invented by Hongkwan Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngchul Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewan Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kisup Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food waste disposer including a housing; a grinding device inside the housing to grind food waste; an exhaust fan inside the housing to form an air flow; an exhaust pipe connected to the exhaust fan to form an exhaust flow path along which air from the g...