ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,590, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).
"Refrigeration appliance with a refrigerant line and water line extending through common pass-through of a vacuum-insulated structure" was invented by Kapil Devidas Bet (Solapur, India), Vishal Brahmanand Chauhan (Maharashtra, India), Rahul Subhash Chhajed (Stevensville, Mich.), Anup Bapu More (Maharashtra, India) and Abinash Sarma (Assam, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration appliance includes a vacuum-insulated structure that defines an interior compartment. The vacuum-insulated structure defines a pass-through through the vacuum-insulat...