ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,643, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Jungeun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Choongeun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator including a water supply device in the door, and including a control valve to control the supply of water by the water supply device, a water supplier that is movable up and down, and an operation lever extending downward from the water supply device; and a controller configured to, when the water supplier is pressed, control the control valve in a first m...