ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,139, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Hyungkyu Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage space; a door opening and closing the storage space and filled with an insulator therein; a cap decoration forming at least a portion of a circumferential surface of the door and having a recessed handle; and a door opening device provided on the door and operated by a user to open the door, in which the door opening device includes a case mounted on the cap decoration and forming a space independent of the...