US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Oct. 28 for "Water routing from cabinet to door of a refrigerator with articulated hinge" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,109, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Water routing from cabinet to door of a refrigerator with articulated hinge" was invented by Gustavo Frattini (St. Joseph, Mich.), Sarah M. Galea (St. Joseph, Mich.), Daniel E. Lottinville (Stevensville, Mich.), Vikas C. Mruthyunjaya (St. Joseph, Mich.) and Abhay Naik (Stevensville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator comprising: a cabinet; a door operably connected to the cabinet, the door having a closed position relative to the cabinet and an opened position relative to the cabinet, and the door transitions from the closed position to ...