US Patent Issued to MIDEA GROUP on March 24 for "Refrigerator with dynamic multi-zone anti-sweat heating system" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,678, issued on March 24, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijiao, China).

"Refrigerator with dynamic multi-zone anti-sweat heating system" was invented by Eric Scalf (Louisville, Ky.) and Brian Langness (Shelbyville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic multi-zone anti-sweat heating system may be used in a refrigerator to reduce moisture on various surfaces of the refrigerator. Moreover, in some instances, the determination of when moisture is present and/or absent from a surface may be made based at least in part on detection of the presence or absence of an elevated thermal load on the surface while a heater is activ...