ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,167, issued on March 25, was assigned to TRUE MANUFACTURING Co. INC. (O'Fallon, Mo.).
"Ice maker" was invented by Kevin Knatt (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice maker includes an evaporator configured to freeze water into ice as it flows vertically down a freeze plate. A distributor distributes the water along the top of the freeze plate to form ice across the width of the freeze plate as the water flows downward along the freeze plate. The distributor can be integrated into the evaporator. For example, the distributor and evaporator can have a part in common. The distributor can be formed from two pieces that come tog...