ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,135, issued on March 17, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Method for operating a household refrigerator having specific operating process coordination in dependence upon a quiet time interval, and household refrigerator" was invented by Marcel Russo (Hermaringen, Germany), Mathias Sigl (Herbrechtingen, Germany) and Hans Schwaiger (Babenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method operates a household refrigerator that has an ice maker that produces and/or dispenses ice in an ice production mode. The household refrigerator can at least partially deactivate a sub-process of the ice production mode in dependenc...