US Patent Issued to Whirlpool on Sept. 30 for "Refrigerator storage system" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,277, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Refrigerator storage system" was invented by Brent Burgess (Edwardsburg, Mich.), Christopher Carpenter (St. Joseph, Mich.), Christopher Hartnett (St. Joseph, Mich.), Luis Yahir Macias (Stevensville, Mich.), Douglas Pohl (Benton Harbor, Mich.), Steven Schatz (Granger, Ind.) and Shekhar Shetty (Cedar Rapids, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerator bin system includes a receptacle, at least one rail, and a secondary container. The receptacle has a top side defining a plurality of orifices of varying sizes configured to receive primary containe...