ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,280, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Refrigerator" was invented by Huimin Yao (Guangdong, China), Jinchao Xu (Guangdong, China), Peng Li (Guangdong, China), Xiaofen Long (Guangdong, China), Yuhua Guo (Guangdong, China), Chunhua Yang (Guangdong, China), Lipin Wang (Guangdong, China), Yanwu Fan (Guangdong, China), Dongning Zhi (Guangdong, China) and Jiawei Zhu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes a refrigerator body and an icemaker. An ice making chamber is defined in the refrigerator body. The icemaker is provided in the ice maki...