ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,800, issued on May 20, was assigned to FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA WATER DISPENSER MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Foshan, China) and MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Water dispensing apparatus, control method of water dispensing apparatus" was invented by Yifan Xie (Foshan, China), Zhile Xu (Foshan, China), Zhaolin Du (Foshan, China) and Binjie Xu (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a water dispensing apparatus and a control method of the water dispensing apparatus. The water dispensing apparatus includes a main body, and an infrared sensing device. The infrared sensing device includes a mounting support, an electric co...