ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,140, issued on April 29, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator and operating method thereof" was invented by Yongbum Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Hwi Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeonseong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghee Kang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator and a method of controlling an operation thereof are proposed. In the refrigerator and method thereof, heat control of heaters for preventing a damper from freezing is performed according to at least any one condition set in consideration of a room temperature and refrigerator internal humidity. Accordingly, c...