US Patent Issued to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai on Dec. 23 for "Storage box and refrigerator" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,219, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Storage box and refrigerator" was invented by Shanshan Huang (Guangdong, China), Aoxiang Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Jizong Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage box and a refrigerator are provided. The storage box includes an item container comprising a box body; a container lid comprising a lid body and a connecting rod fixedly connected to the lid body and hinged to the box body; and a first container lid connecting mechanism, comprising an elastic telescopic mechanism and/or a rotary push mechanism. The e...