US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on June 2 for "Bin storage system for a refrigerator appliance" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,639, issued on June 2, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Bin storage system for a refrigerator appliance" was invented by Gowardhan Parikshit (Pune, India), Sunil Patil (Belagavi, India), Ryan Post (Coloma, Mich.) and Lalit Suryawanshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system for a refrigerator includes a drawer, a rail, a cap, and a clip. The drawer has a frame and a bin removably disposed on top of the frame. The rail is movably secured to the frame such that the drawer is operable to transition between deployed and stowed positions. The cap is disposed along an end of the rail and defines ...