ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,617, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Taeyun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yonghyun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghwa Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungkeun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a refrigerator including an inner case forming a storage compartment and including a mount with a connecting protrusion in which a connection hole is formed, an outer case coupled to an outside of the inner case, an insulation provided between the inner case and the outer case, an electrical component attached to...