ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,446, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hoshizaki America Inc. (Peachtree City, Ga.).

"Refrigerated appliance with automatically adjustable setpoint" was invented by Michael Tambasco (Newnan, Ga.), Gregory Maples (Senoia, Ga.), Cole Whitehurst (Atlanta), Kevin Huckaby (Newnan, Ga.) and Jeremy Neill (Gay, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using a refrigerated appliance can include regulating a temperature of a first insulated enclosure of a first refrigerated portion of the appliance within a first predetermined temperature range, the appliance including the first refrigerated portion and a second refrigerated portion p...