ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,682, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Kyong Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sangbok Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungwook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is configured such that a controller may control the frost detecting operation to be differently performed on the basis of at least one of a room temperature and a set reference temperature. Thus, precise frosting detection may be performed and power consumption due to the frosting detection may be minimized, and power consumption efficiency may be improved."
The patent ...