ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,704, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Juno Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gahyeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jin Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator having an inner door including an opening between the front and rear surfaces of the inner door, first and second opening side surfaces, and a dike protruding from the rear surface of the inner door and including first and second dike inner surfaces; an outer door on the front of the inner door to open to access the opening...