ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,877, issued on May 12, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Climate regulating features for a refrigerator icebox" was invented by Choonjae Ryu (Prospect, Ky.) and Alan Joseph Mitchell (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice making assembly mounted on a door of a refrigerator appliance includes an icebox mounted on the door and defining an ice making chamber and an icebox opening to the ice making chamber, an ice storage bin positioned below the icebox for storing ice, wherein an intake slot is defined between the icebox and the ice storage bin, a damper mounted over the icebox opening ...