US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 29 for "Refrigeration appliance fan" (Iowa, Michigan, Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,905, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigeration appliance fan" was invented by Adam Gary (Marco Island, Fla.), Keeley Kabala (Elgin, Ill.), Raghu Muddasani (Iowa City, Iowa), Jeremiah S. Papke (Shelby Township, Mich.), Kyle Van Meter (Coralville, Iowa) and Scott M. Wesbrook (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration appliance includes a freezer compartment fluidly coupled to an ice maker compartment via an ice maker return duct. An internal sensor is positioned within the freezer compartment and configured to sense a first condition within the freezer compartmen...