ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,528, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and control method thereof" was invented by Youngseung Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Yun Su Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator and a control method thereof of the present disclosure allows a controller to perform a load operation when the load operation start condition is satisfied when a door is opened, and when an operation release condition is satisfied, the load operation is controlled to be released and switched (or maintained) to a normal storage operation."

The patent was filed on Nov. 12, 2021, u...