US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 1 for "Refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,802, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Jungil Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Younghoon Gwak (Seoul, South Korea) and Seonwoo Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet having a storage space; a door opening and closing the storage space; a cap decoration defining a portion of the door and having a recessed handle; and a door opening device provided on the door and operated by a user to open the door. The door opening device includes a case coupled to the cap decoration inside the door; an operating member mounted inside...