ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,966, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Youngil Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoungmok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ilsung Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jisu Rhie (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Inyong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a main body including a storage compartment, a door body rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close the storage compartment, and a front panel detachably coupled to the door body. The door body includes an upper cap including ...