US Patent Issued to Electrolux Consumer Products on Oct. 14 for "Refrigerator appliance ice storage bin retention" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,578, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Electrolux Consumer Products Inc. (Charlottle, N.C.).

"Refrigerator appliance ice storage bin retention" was invented by Thomas McCollough (Anderson, S.C.), Eduardo Nicolas Orthmann Da Silva (Curitiba, Brazil), Rodrigo Marge Pagnozzi (Curitiba, Brazil), Lokesha Kodigenahalli Chinnappa Reddy (Louisville, Ky.) and Eduardo Henrique Sare (Curitiba, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration appliance includes an ice maker for freezing water into ice pieces. The ice maker (125) includes an ice maker housing (126), an ice making unit (156) for making the ice pieces, a removeable ice bin (1...