ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,706, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HISENSE REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Chun Yang (Shandong, China), Yufeng Bao (Shandong, China), Xiangping Zhang (Shandong, China), Haiyan Wang (Shandong, China) and Dong Guo (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a refrigerator body and a door body. In a case where the door body is opened from a closed state to a first state, a first hinge shaft moves from a first positioning position to a second positioning position along a first positioning trajectory line with respect to a first trajectory slot, and a second hinge sha...