ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,859, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Youngmin You (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ilsung Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byungkwan Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes an outer case forming the exterior of a main body, an inner case disposed inside the outer case to form a storage compartment, an upper duct including an upper outlet to discharge cold air downward toward the storage compartment, and disposed in the inner case to form an upper flow path to supply cold air...