ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,027, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Control method" was invented by Masakazu Hoashi (Shiga, Japan) and Kazuhiro Murakami (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method that is achieved by a refrigerator application installed in portable terminal (110), the control method including the steps of instructing an operating system (OS) of portable terminal (110) to connect to a refrigerator in operation in a software access point mode, and sending a service set identifier (SSID) of an access point and a password for connecting to the access point to the...