US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,970, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Jae Won Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance may include a casing having a cavity therein, and a door configured to open and close the cavity. A door locking device disposed in the casing may lock the door in a closed state. A locking housing of the door locking device may include a latch and a closing button. The latch may be caught by a fixing hole of the door while being rotated, and the closing button may be pressed by a rear surface of the door. As described above, a device (c...