US Patent Issued to Haier US Appliance Solutions on March 18 for "Ice making assembly for a refrigerator appliance" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,290, issued on March 18, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Ice making assembly for a refrigerator appliance" was invented by Alan Joseph Mitchell (Louisville, Ky.) and Chaitanya Krishna Karanam (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice making assembly for a refrigerator appliance includes a resilient mold defining a mold cavity and a heat exchanger in thermal communication with the resilient mold to freeze water and form one or more ice cubes therein. The ice making assembly also includes a lifter mechanism positioned below the resilient mold for selectively deforming the mold and r...