ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,065, issued on May 13, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Refrigerator and corresponding valve system" was invented by Bruno Boehringer (Cypress, Texas), Chao-Yi Chen (Saint Joseph, Mich.), Pravan Karan (Stevensville, Mich.), Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.), Antonio Sanchez (Stevensville, Mich.) and Mrunal Shaldar (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water valve system for a refrigerator appliance includes a bracket and a first set of one or more valves. The bracket is configured secure one or more valves to the refrigerator. The bracket has locating and fastening features configured to locate and secu...