US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Oct. 21 for "Refrigeration appliance including a refrigerant line and water line extending through common pass-through of a vacuum-insulated structure" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,182, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigeration appliance including a refrigerant line and water line extending through common pass-through of a vacuum-insulated structure" was invented by Anup Bapu More (Pimpri-Chinchwad, India), Rahul Subhash Chhajed (Stevensville, Mich.), Digeshwar Hemraj Harinkhede (Nagpur, India), Vishal Brahmanand Chauhan (Palghar, India), Kapil Devidas Bet (Solapur, India) and Abinash Sarma (Tinsukia, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration appliance includes: (i) a vacuum-insulated structure defining a refrigerable compartment, the vacuum-insulated s...