ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,467, issued on July 1, was assigned to HEFEI HUALING Co. LTD. (Hefei, China), HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Hefei, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD (Foshan, China).

"Partial-freezing meat fresh-preservation control method, controller, and refrigerator" was invented by Qinqin Gong (Anhui, China), Huixin Shi (Anhui, China), Zhigang Wu (Anhui, China) and Zhifang Ning (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partial-freezing meat fresh-preservation control method, a controller and a refrigerator are provided. The control method includes: S1 (101), acquiring a current temperature of meat food in a compartment of a refrigerator in ...