ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,383, issued on May 19, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and control method therefor" was invented by Donghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Wookyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Seungseob Yeom (Seoul, South Korea), Donghoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Yongjun Bae (Seoul, South Korea), Sunggyun Son (Seoul, South Korea) and Chongyoung Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The refrigerator of the present invention comprises: a storage compartment where food is stored; a cold air supply means for supplying cold air to the storage compartment; a first tray forming a part of an ice making cell...