ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,837, issued on April 22, was assigned to QINGDAO HAIER SPECIAL REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China), QINGDAO HAIER REFRIGERATOR Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China) and HAIER SMART HOME Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"Refrigerator door with replaceable door surface" was invented by Jiaming Li (Qingdao, China), Hao Zhang (Qingdao, China), Zhiwei Ren (Qingdao, China) and Peng Lv (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a refrigerator door with a replaceable door surface, including: a foamed door body and a door shell plate; wherein a rear side of the door shell plate is provided with a hook; a front side of the ...