ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,396, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator and control method thereof" was invented by Youna Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Danim Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngsun Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiyoon Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a storage room, a camera having a field of view facing the storage room, a display, a distance sensor, and a control unit. The control unit may obtain image data of the storage room from the camera, identify food stored in the storage room on the basis o...