US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 27 for "Refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,840, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jinil Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunji Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a freezing compartment defined therein, an ice-maker mounted in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice-maker makes spherical ice and removes the made spherical ice downwards, an ice bin disposed below the ice-maker, and retractable and extendable in a front and rear direction, wherein the removed ice is stored in the ice bin, and a cov...