US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 7 for "Refrigerator and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,920, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and method of controlling the same" was invented by Sang Min Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun O Kwon (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Koog An (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body which includes a storage compartment, a door which opens and closes the storage compartment and includes a dispenser, a water tank case disposed in the door, a water tank separably mounted in the water tank case, a water level sensor configured to sense a water level inside the wa...