ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,657, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator including touch interface" was invented by Boeun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Buyeong Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including a main body configured with a storage compartment; a door configured to be rotatable to open and close the storage compartment; a touch interface on the door, and configured to sense a touch of a user, and a door opening device configured to rotate the door to open the storage compartment when the touch interface senses th...