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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Inseok Hwang, Austin, TX (US);

Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);

Eric J. Rozner, Austin, TX (US);

Chungkuk Yoo, Yuseong-gu, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 29/00 (2006.01); G05D 23/19 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); F25D 11/02 (2006.01); F25D 23/12 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F25D 29/00 (2013.01); F25D 11/02 (2013.01); F25D 23/12 (2013.01); G05D 23/1917 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); F25D 2500/06 (2013.01); F25D 2600/04 (2013.01); F25D 2700/06 (2013.01); F25D 2700/08 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06K 7/10297 (2013.01); G06K 7/1413 (2013.01);
Abstract

A refrigerator-implemented method for optimizing placement of food items in different compartments of a refrigerator, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a request to store a first type of food item in the refrigerator, determining, using detection hardware, each type of food item already stored in one or more of the compartments of the refrigerator, comparing a characteristic of the first type of food item with a same type of characteristic for each type of food item already stored in the one or more of the compartments of the refrigerator, selecting a first of the compartments in which to store the first type of food item based at least in part on the comparison, and outputting, using an output device, a recommendation to store the first type of food item in the first compartment. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.


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