US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 7 for "Refrigerator having a plurality of ice makers" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,949, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator having a plurality of ice makers" was invented by Yong Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Soo Young Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghee Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a refrigerator comprises a plurality of ice makers configured to generate ice, a valve part configured to adjust a supply of water to each of the plurality of ice makers, and a controller configured to control the valve part, and when receiving a request for a supply of water to an ice maker of higher priority while water is supplied ...