ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,056, issued on June 24, was assigned to HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China), QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and AQUA Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Shinsuke Shitara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a refrigerator. The refrigerator has side-by-side doors including a first door and a second door, the first door has a rotatably provided middle post which has a locking mechanism for preventing rotation of the middle post, the locking mechanism has a release mechanism for releasing locking, the middle post is switched between a first position where the midd...