US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 23 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,163, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Myeong Su Shin (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a casing having a cavity and an electric chamber therein, and a door opening and closing the cavity. In addition, a tank housing storing a water tank therein is disposed in the electric chamber. The tank housing has a tank chamber open towards a tank entrance of a front housing. A front surface of the tank housing is in close contact with a rear surface of the front housing, and the tank chamber is connected to the tank entr...