ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,976, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Food waste disposer" was invented by Daegeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongjie Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Namsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonyoung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food waste disposer includes: a housing; a grinding case positioned inside the housing and configured to be separable from inside of the housing to outside of the housing and treat food waste; a rotating grinder configured to treat the food waste by rotating inside the grinding case and rotatably coupled with respect to a bott...