ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,588, issued on April 8, was assigned to EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & Co. KGAA (Nabburg, Germany).
"Ice maker with capacitive ice detection" was invented by Lukas Schade (Nabburg, Germany), Georg SpieBl (Altendorf, Germany), Sophia Grimm (Nabburg, Germany) and Manfredi Signorino (Wackersdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice maker for a domestic refrigeration device with an ice-making tray having a plurality of freezing cavities, a support structure installed in the refrigeration device and rotatably supporting the ice-making tray, a rotational drive unit arranged on the support structure for driving the ice-making tray in rotation...