US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 3 for "Refrigerator and method of controlling refrigerator that changes refrigerating temperature of refrigerating compartment to freezing temperature" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,041, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Refrigerator and method of controlling refrigerator that changes refrigerating temperature of refrigerating compartment to freezing temperature" was invented by Junghoon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungtae Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ganghyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaeuk Ryoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator is disclosed. The refrigerator includes a temperature sensor, a cooling device, and a processor which controls the cooling device such that, when a user command to change the temperature of a...