ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,615, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Suhyeong Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghyeon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaejin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hojune Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator may include a body having a compartment, an inner door having an opening, and being rotatable between a closed and an open position relative to the compartment, an outer door in front of the inner door, and rotatable to open and close the opening, a locking device to lock the outer door to, and unlock the outer door fr...