ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,918, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Shandong, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Shandong, China).

"Installation foot and refrigerator having same" was invented by Changzhi Wang (Shandong, China), Bin Fei (Shandong, China), Enpin Xia (Shandong, China), Xiaobing Zhu (Shandong, China) and Kang Li (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation foot and a refrigerator having same, the installation foot including: a support base, a part of which forms a first step portion and a second step portion; a roller wheel, rollably disposed below the second step portion; and an adjustment ...