US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on July 7 for "Refrigerator and corresponding shelving system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,619, issued on July 7, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigerator and corresponding shelving system" was invented by Mahesh Edake (Pune, India), Ravindra Mali (Pune, India), Kailash Shravan More (Pune, India), Shekhar Shetty (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Kiran R Waghmare (Hingoli, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator shelf includes a plate, a frame, and a support arm. The plate is configured to support items disposed within a refrigerator. The frame supports the plate and has a brace extending downward from a bottom surface of the frame. The brace has an edge. The support arm has a flange extending...