ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,797, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Aging device and refrigerating and freezing apparatus" was invented by Chunli Wang (Qingdao, China), Hao Zhang (Qingdao, China), Tong Chen (Qingdao, China) and Zhanpeng Cui (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aging device for refrigerating and freezing apparatus includes a aging drawer configured to be retractably provided in a cabinet of the refrigerating and freezing apparatus, the interior of the aging drawer is defined a aging chamber for containing the items to be aged, a rea...