US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on July 14 for "Refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same" (American, Brazilian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,219, issued on July 14, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same" was invented by Victor Henrique Sfoggia Carlotto (Joinville, Brazil), Michael Todd Moore (Paw Paw, Mich.), Sushanth Purandhar (Pune, India), Ryan Michael Post (Coloma, Mich.) and Michael S. Richards (St. Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example refrigerator includes a cabinet, an internal compartment disposed within the cabinet, a closing member op...