US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 17 for "Refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,138, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Yongwon Dong (Seoul, South Korea), Younseok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanggyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator according to the embodiment comprises: a cabinet having a storage space; a main door for opening and closing the storage space; a sub door capable of rotating relative to the main door; a hinge mechanism, which provides the rotation center of the main door and the rotation center of the sub door and in which the rotation center of the main door is positioned on the sub do...