ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,339, issued on July 21, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Household refrigeration appliance with a power-saving mode, and method for initializing a household refrigeration appliance" was invented by Stephan Kempfle (Ellzee, Germany), Christopher Rodney (Villenbach, Germany) and Daniel Bihr (Kirchheim am Ries, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A household refrigeration appliance has a cooling chamber that can be closed off by at least one door. At least one door image recording module with at least one camera sensor and a gyro sensor is arranged on the at least one door. The gyro sensor is permanently active in an op...