ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,196, issued on June 23, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Air guide for a refrigerator appliance" was invented by Slawomir Pawel Bolek (Goshen, Ky.), Saravanan Rajamanickam (Louisville, Ky.) and David Gantt (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator appliance may include a freezer chamber having a freezer door rotatably mounted thereto. The freezer chamber may include an inner liner having a top freezer wall that defines one or more air channels. In addition, the refrigerator appliance may include an ice making assembly positioned at the freezer door. Furthermore, the refrigera...