ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,986, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Food waste disposer" was invented by Yongjun Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keonpyo Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyoungmok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiho Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food waste disposer includes a housing, a grinding device detachably mounted inside the housing to grind food waste, and a storage device disposed below the grinding device to store the ground food waste, the grinding device includes a grinding case in which the food waste is ground, and having a discharge portion and openab...