US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Aug. 25 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,593, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Myeong Su Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Yong Woon Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a casing having a cavity therein, and a door opening and closing the cavity. In addition, a door locking device disposed in the casing catches the door to turn the door into a locked state. The door locking device includes a rotatable latch, and a locking head assembled to the latch. When a head fastener coupling the locking head to the latch is separated from the locking head, the loc...