ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,959, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Hyeonkyu Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Juyeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunuk Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including a water supplier; an ice-making housing in a storage compartment; a first tray in the ice-making housing and including a first ice-making cell, and a first sealing portion formed along an edge of the first ice-making cell; and a second tray including a second ice-making cell, and a second sealing portion formed along an edge of the second ice-m...