ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,418, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator and control method thereof" was invented by Joonsik Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a refrigerator includes: obtaining an input image generated by photographing an inner space of the refrigerator; with respect to one or more objects recognized from the input image, obtaining object information including a type and a position of the one or more objects, respectively; by using an ultra-wide band (UWB) module included in the refrigerator, detecting a UWB signal output from a UWB devic...