ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,337, issued on March 24, was assigned to HEFEI MIDEA REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Hefei, China), HEFEI HUALING Co. LTD. (Hefei, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).
"Cabinet device" was invented by Junwei Fang (Hefei, China), Daojun Yu (Hefei, China), Xuekang Liu (Hefei, China) and Zhigang Lv (Hefei, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge assembly of a box device is provided with a first sliding rail and a second sliding rail; the first sliding rail and the second sliding rail both linearly extend. When a door body blocks an opening, the first sliding rail and the second sliding rail tilt relative to a plane where the op...