ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,635, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Infused ice maker appliance" was invented by Vineeth Vijayan (Louisville, Ky.) and Stephanos Kyriacou (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice maker appliance includes a mold body, a pod receiver slot upstream of the mold body, and a mixing chamber downstream of the pod receiver slot and upstream of the mold body. The mixing chamber is configured to retain an amount of water and an additive, whereby the additive mixes with the amount of water in the mixing chamber upstream of the mold cavity to form a volume of liquid. Thus, t...