US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 3 for "Ice maker and refrigerator having the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,019, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Ice maker and refrigerator having the same" was invented by Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinil Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Seungjin Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunggeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an ice maker and a refrigerator having the ice maker. An ice maker according to the present disclosure includes: an upper assembly including an upper tray forming an upper chamber, which is a portion an ice chamber, and having an upper opening, and a temperature sensor configured to sense te...