ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,170, issued on March 25, was assigned to HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Zhipeng Li (Guangdong, China), Yong Zeng (Guangdong, China) and Zehong Xu (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes an ice crushing device and a driving device. The ice crushing device includes a stirrer and a transmission assembly. The stirrer includes a rotary shaft. The transmission assembly includes a first cylindrical gear, a first intermediate shaft, a second cylindrical gear, a second intermediate shaft, a third cylindrical gear, a first bevel gear and a s...