ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,594, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Jun Hee Yoo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance may include a casing having a cavity and an upper space divided from the cavity, a door disposed at a front of the casing and configured to open and close the cavity, a panel disposed at the front of the casing at a height different from a height of the door, and configured to be moved from a first position to a second position, and a hinge that connects the casing and the panel to each other and is disposed in the upper space of the ca...