ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,048, issued on June 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Sanggyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Younseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yongwon Dong (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator of the present embodiment is characterized by comprising: a cabinet having a storage space; a refrigerator door which is rotatably connected to the cabinet by a hinge apparatus and opens and closes the storage space; an extension member which is drawn out from the cabinet and connected to the inside of the refrigerator door through a door opening spaced apart from the rotat...