ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,637, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Dong Hwi Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kihwang Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongbum Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment, a refrigerator compartment, a flow path duct assembly being disposed at a rear of the refrigerator compartment and comprising a cold air flow path, a grille fan assembly disposed at a rear of the freezer compartment, and a supply duct assembly that fluidly communicates with the flow path duct assembly and the grille fan assembly and supplies co...