ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,448, issued on April 15, was assigned to BLUENIX Co. Ltd. (Ansan-si, South Korea).
"Method for manufacturing auger-type ice maker and the manufactured auger-type ice maker" was invented by Doo Ha Kim (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for manufacturing an auger-type ice maker including an ice-making tube, an auger, a refrigerant pipe, and a metal core material, includes heating and feeding the metal core material to the ice-making tube; winding the metal core material together with the refrigerant pipe around the ice-making tube; and heating a welding age...