ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,178, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to HISENSE RONSHEN (GUANGDONG) REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).
"Refrigerator" was invented by Huimin Yao (Guangdong, China), Jinchao Xu (Guangdong, China) and Peng Li (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator includes an ice maker. The ice maker includes a mold shell, a driving mechanism, a first push rod, a second push rod, and a connecting rod assembly. One of the first sub-mold shell and the second sub-mold shell is fixed, and another one is movable. The driving mechanism is configured to drive the first sub-mold shell or the second sub-mold shell to switch between ...