US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on June 16 for "Refrigerator and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,040, issued on June 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and control method therefor" was invented by Yonghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sooyoung Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sunghee Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door, an ice maker provided in the cabinet or the door, a water supply flow path configured to connect the ice maker to a water supply source outside the cabinet, a filter connected to the water supply flow path to purify water supplied to the ice maker, at least one valve provided in the water supply flow path, and a contr...