ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,020, issued on March 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Hyunjin Park (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a refrigerator, an end portion of a water supply tube, facing an ice maker, is placed closer to the lower surface of a guide tube than to the upper surface of the guide tube, for water from the water supply tube to be discharged along the lower surface of the guide tube, such that water going past a water discharge area of the guide tube adjacent to a freezer compartment sweeps across the entire inner surface of the guide tube as much as possible at a time ...