ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,465, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Storage device" was invented by Jianlin Miao (Qingdao, China), Yihao Xu (Qingdao, China), Xueli Cheng (Qingdao, China) and Ming Wang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage device. The storage device comprises a box body, at least one door body and an automatic door-opening assembly for opening the at least one door body. The automatic door-opening assembly comprises a housing and at least one automatic door-opening device. The housing is fixedly connected to the b...