ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,674, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and controlling method for same" was invented by Jin Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sunggu Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bongsu Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongsun Song (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwanyeol Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including: a main body including at least one storage compartment; a temperature sensor arrangeable in the main body; an ice making device including an ice tray arrangeable in the at least one storage compartment such that while the ice tray is arrang...