US Patent Issued to BSH Home Appliances, BSH Hausgerate on March 17 for "Pivotable guard device for ice bin of refrigeration appliance" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,136, issued on March 17, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Pivotable guard device for ice bin of refrigeration appliance" was invented by Conner Wainauski (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jorge Carlos Montalvo Sanchez (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Nilton Bertolini (Clinton, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pivotable ice bin guard device for preventing ice cubes from being inadvertently ejected from the back of an ice storage bin of a refrigeration appliance, such as over a rear wall of the ice storage bin. The ice maker guard device can include at least one hanger component that is mount...