ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,818, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Jonghwan Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Ugjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehyeok Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Heechan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cooking appliance including a main body having a cooking chamber and an upper space. The cooking appliance comprises an upper exhaust hole configured to open the upper space to an outside, an internal exhaust hole configured to provide a passage connecting the cooking chamber to at least one of a side space and the upper space, and an ...