US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Jan. 28 for "Refrigerator and method for controlling refrigerator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,797, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and method for controlling refrigerator" was invented by Kyongbae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sungwook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Wookyung Baik (Seoul, South Korea), Soonkyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sangbok Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a refrigerator includes determining whether or not a defrosting initiation condition is satisfied with respect to an evaporator, if the defrosting initiation condition is satisfied, detecting a pressure differential using one differential pressure sensor ...