ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,578, issued on June 3, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Refrigerator and corresponding shelving system" was invented by Mahesh Edake (Pune, India), Ravindra Mali (Pune, India), Kailash More (Pune, India), Lalit Madhukar Suryawanshi (Pune, India) and Kiran Waghmare (Hingoli, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator shelf includes a plate, a frame, and a cover. The plate is configured to support items disposed within a refrigerator. The frame is configured to support the plate. The frame has a front beam, a rear beam, a first side beam, and a second side beam, each engaging and supporting the plate. Th...