ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,679, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator including a detection sensor at an air discharge side of a blowing fan" was invented by Kyong Bae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Jhee (Seoul, South Korea), Yun Su Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Seung Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a grille assembly having a blowing fan installed at one side of a first storage compartment to discharge air heat-exchanged with a cooling source to at least one of the first and second storage compartment. The grille assembly includes a first guide flow pat...