ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,990, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator, home appliance, and conrtol method thereof" was invented by Ikkyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jaemin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaeyong Won (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a door configured to open and close the storage space, a microphone configured to receive voice, a speaker configured to output audio, and a controller configured to, based on the microphone receiving a voice command the audio being output, operate the refrigerator according to the voice com...