ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,134, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator driven based on ambient noise and control method thereof" was invented by Jungwon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a microphone and at least one processor configured to identify a first driving noise level corresponding to first driving state information of the refrigerator, based on receiving an ambient noise through the microphone while operating according to the first driving state information, identify a reception noise level based on the received ambient noise, identify an ex...