US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 28 for "Refrigerator having hinge and damper" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,740, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator having hinge and damper" was invented by Hohyeang Yun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet forming a storage space; a door configured to open and close the cabinet; a hinge configured to connect the door and the cabinet and to support the door to be rotatable; and a damping mechanism providing a damping force to the door while the door rotates in a closing direction after opening the door, in which the damping force of the damping mechanism varies during a door closing process."

The patent w...