ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,507, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vacuum adiabatic body, refrigerator, and method for fabricating the refrigerator" was invented by Jaehyun Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Wonyeong Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Deokhyun Youn (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vacuum adiabatic body. The vacuum adiabatic body includes a thin pipe passing through the main body to connect an inside of the accommodation space to an outside of the accommodation portion, a drain pipe provided inside the thin pipe to discharge the defrosting water, and an adiabatic material having an ex...