ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,879, issued on May 12, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Infused ice maker appliance with manual harvesting" 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 comprising a mold cavity. The mold cavity is configured for receiving a volume of liquid water therein and retaining the volume of liquid water to form an ice piece in the mold cavity. The ice maker appliance also includes a pod receiver upstream of the mold cavity along a flow path of the volume of liquid water. The pod receiver...