ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,858, issued on July 15, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Icemaker appliance and method for reducing total dissolved solids" was invented by Bo Yan (Shanghai), Samuel Vincent DuPlessis (Louisville, Ky.) and Ronald Scott Tarr (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An icemaker appliance and method for reducing total dissolved solids is provided. The icemaker appliance includes a closed loop circuit including a conduit fluidly coupling together a water reservoir, an icemaking vessel, and an ice reservoir. A pump is configured to flow water through the conduit. A controller is configured to s...