ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,862, issued on July 15, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).
"Refrigeration module and refrigerator" was invented by Bin Fei (Qingdao, China), Zhanzhan Liu (Qingdao, China), Xiaobing Zhu (Qingdao, China), Peng Li (Qingdao, China) and Changzhi Wang (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration module, comprising: a module body, in which an installation space is defined; and a refrigeration system disposed in the installation space for use in generating cold, wherein a cold supply port is provided on the module body, the cold supply port ...