ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,373, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Chomin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seangwon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaejin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeonghun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wooyeol Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes: a main body including a storage compartment; a door rotatably coupled to the main body and configured to open and close the storage compartment; and a door opening device provided in the main body and including a drive motor, the door opening device being configured to ope...