ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,971,176, issued on April 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Cooking appliance" was invented by Hag Soo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Mun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking compartment, which is surrounded by a bottom surface, a pair of side surfaces, and a back surface of the housing, and has an upper surface and a front surface which are open. A door includes a door upper surface part which covers the upper surface of the housing and a door front surface part which is connected to a front side of the door upper surface part and cov...