ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,618, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jin Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ganghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyekyoung An (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including a refrigerator compartment, a dairy product maker inside the refrigerator compartment, a control panel configured to receive a control command, and a controller configured to control the dairy product maker based on the control command, the dairy product maker includes a container to store milk or a dairy product,...