US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 13 for "Refrigerator with automatic door and method for controlling automatic door of refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,415, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator with automatic door and method for controlling automatic door of refrigerator" was invented by Hyunbum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungyoon Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes: a sensor comprising a magnetic field sensor and a magnet and configured to detect an open or closed state of a door and measure a pressed amount of the door based on a change in a distance between the magnetic field sensor and the magnet, and a controller configured to control the door driver and determine whether the doo...