US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Home appliances including light sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,398, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Home appliances including light sensor" was invented by Jeongsu Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gwangjin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taegyoon Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator may comprise a main body including a storage compartment, a door rotatably connectable to the main body, a water container mounting part disposed in the door, a water container coupleable to and decoupleable from the water container mounting part, and an optical sensor disposed on one surface of a side of the water container ...