ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,735, issued on May 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator, refrigerating or warming apparatus, and vacuum adiabatic body" was invented by Hyeunsik Nam (Seoul, South Korea) and Bongjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum adiabatic body is provided that includes a first plate member, a second plate member, a sealing part sealing the first plate member and the second plate member to provide a third space that has a temperature between the temperature of the first space and the temperature of the second space and is in a vacuum state, a supporting unit maintaining the third...