ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,982, issued on June 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for controlling refrigerator" was invented by Seokjun Yun (Seoul, South Korea), Hyoungkeun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Junghun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hoyoun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that, when the temperature of a freezing chamber is in a satisfactory temperature range, and a deep-freezing chamber mode is turned on such that a deep-freezing chamber cooling operation is being performed, the refrigerator...