ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,755, issued on March 31, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Mullion guide element for a refrigerator appliance" was invented by William Jeremy Leachman (Pewee Valley, Ky.), Matthew William Davis (Prospect, Ky.) and Jonathan Charles Crosby (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet defining a chamber. The refrigerator appliance may include a door rotatably hinged to the cabinet for accessing the chamber. The refrigerator appliance may include an articulating mullion rotatable coupled to the door. The articulating mullion may include a body. The re...