US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on Feb. 3 for "Sound system for a refrigerator appliance" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,989, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sound system for a refrigerator appliance" was invented by Christopher Hayward Osborne (Louisville, Ky.) and Timothy Ray Jackson (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door being rotatably mounted to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, a dispensing assembly mounted to the door and defining a dispenser recess, a control panel mounted to a front of the door, and a speaker assembly mounted within the door behind the control panel, where...