ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,653, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Ice maker and refrigerator" was invented by Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinil Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunji Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunggeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein, and an ice-maker disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice-maker includes a cold-air hole for receiving cold air, an upper tray having a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers defined therein, a lower tr...