US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on July 15 for "Refrigerator and method for controlling same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,869, issued on July 15, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and method for controlling same" was invented by Kyunghun Cha (Seoul, South Korea), Namsoo Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Sunam Chae (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaewon Eom (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator of the present embodiment includes: a cabinet having a storage compartment; a cooling apparatus which operates to cool the storage compartment; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of the storage space at a set time interval; and a controller for controlling the cooling apparatus, wherein the controller ...