ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,398, issued on July 22, was assigned to Chu Chien-Jung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Intelligent ice supply device and apparatus having the intelligent ice supply device" was invented by Chien-Jung Chu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chang-Hsi Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Fei-Teng Ko (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent ice supply device and an apparatus with the intelligent ice supply device. The intelligent ice supply device includes an ice storage container, an agitating bar, a plurality of agitating plates, a plurality of ice partitions and a driving device. The agitating bar is rotatably located in the ice storage contai...