ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,636, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Youngmin You (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byungkwan Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongwoo Han (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes an inner case forming a storage compartment, a duct in the storage compartment, the duct including: a duct body, and a first coupling portion on a front side of the duct body, and a partition detachably mountable in front of the duct and dividing the storage compartment int...