ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,914, issued on May 20, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Refrigerator and method for controlling refrigerator" was invented by Hyunseok Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a main body that defines a storage chamber; door coupled to the main body and configured to open and close the storage chamber, a first sensor disposed at the main body and configured to sense a user in a vicinity of the refrigerator, and a second sensor configured to sense a user input for selecting at least one function related to the door, and a control unit configured to, based on sensing resu...