US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 24 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,262, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Hag Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Daeyong Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Mun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a cooking appliance including a hinge assembly which withdraws a tray forward from inside a cooking compartment by interlocking with rotation of a door when the door is opened and inserts the tray rearward toward the inside of the cooking compartment by interlocking with rotation of the door when the door is closed."

The patent was filed on Jan. 10, 2020, under...