US Patent Issued to MIDEA GROUP on Dec. 16 for "Refrigerator ice maker with shut off arm position sensor" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,158, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Refrigerator ice maker with shut off arm position sensor" was invented by Vinayak Naik (Louisville, Ky.) and Eric L. Scalf (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator utilizes an ice maker including a shut off arm position sensor capable of sensing a plurality of positions of a shut off arm. Doing so may enable, for example, false full or empty indications to be detected, and in some instances, enable detection of potentially fused ice in a storage bin."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/192,323.

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