ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,887, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Inwon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byoungmok Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wonseok Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongwoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chomin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including a main body with a storage room inside; a door to open and close the storage room; a lever device on the door and including a case, a rotatable lever coupled to the case, and a spring inside the case; a cam on the main body and including a cam face with first and second cont...