ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,441, issued on May 12, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Magnetic field freshness-preserving storage container and refrigerator" was invented by Yanfeng Zhao (Qingdao, China), Mengcheng Li (Qingdao, China), Bin Fei (Qingdao, China), Xiaobing Zhu (Qingdao, China), Lisheng Ji (Qingdao, China), Yuning Zhang (Qingdao, China), Yao Yi (Qingdao, China), Tao Li (Qingdao, China) and Zilin Cao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field freshness-preserving storage container (200) includes a storage assembly (210), in which a storage space fo...