ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,287, issued on July 29.

"Spherical ice maker" was invented by Chaomiao Zhang (Maoming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spheric ice maker, relating to the technical field of ice making equipment, includes a water measuring device and a driver bracket, in which a driver bracket includes an evaporator lower bracket, an evaporator, an evaporator lower cover, an evaporator front cover, and an evaporator bracket. The evaporator lower bracket and the evaporator lower cover are connected to each other to form an integrity with a closed cavity, the evaporator lower cover has an accommodating tank communicated with the closed cavity, an...