ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,050, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Steel sheet, refrigerator including the same, and manufacturing method of steel sheet" was invented by Choongkeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdeog Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangjoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daeyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngtae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joohyun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a steel sheet having lowered visibility of the curvature of the outer surface by lowering the side glossiness of the steel sheet used on a refrigerator body, a refriger...