ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,958, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Home appliance and control method therefor" was invented by Jeongkil Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Wanglim Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seongho Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a control method for a home appliance configured to detect a user's knock applied thereto that includes generating vibration detection signals corresponding to vibrations of three axial directions orthogonal to each other, and determining whether a vibration is generated by the user's knock by using a vibration detection signal of a first axial di...