ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,572, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Takashi Ito (Tokyo), Hiroaki Yokoo (Tokyo) and Tatsuya Umeda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a controller wherein the controller detects opening and closing of a door during a normal temperature control in which a compartment temperature of a first storage compartment is maintained at a normal set temperature, to supply cold air to the first storage compartment for a first time period, in a case where the controller detects, via a temperature detection unit within the first time period, a temperature r...