ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,053, issued on June 24, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Air-cooled refrigerator with evaporator at bottom of cabinet" was invented by Jianlin Miao (Shandong, China), Hui Liu (Shandong, China), Lingyun Dong (Shandong, China) and Ming Wang (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an air-cooled refrigerator with an evaporator at the bottom of a cabinet thereof. The air-cooled refrigerator includes: a cabinet with a bottom liner; a partition cover plate transversely arranged in the bottom liner to divide the bottom liner into a stor...