ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,741, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHENZHEN OMNI ICE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ice-making intelligent bathtub" was invented by Haihui Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an ice-making intelligent bathtub to solve the problem that the ice-making mechanism in the prior art is single and has no automatic heating and deicing function. The ice-making intelligent bathtub makes ice through a heat exchanger connected in parallel to an S-shaped flattened wall-attached D-shaped copper tube, and during heating, an electromagnetic value cuts off a copper tube passage; in an ice-ma...