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Refrigerator

Granted 10 Mar 2026 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Whirlpool Corporation · originally Whirlpool

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Inventors: Michael R. Mackay, Christopher L Carpenter, Casey L. McCuan · Examiner: Khawaja Anwar · AU 2912 · TC 2900

Application
30/005,161
filed 23 May 2025
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US D1117368
granted 10 Mar 2026

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is an oblique perspective view of…

FIG. 1 is an oblique perspective view of a refrigerator according to a first embodiment of the design, back, right side, left side, top and bottom views of the design showing no claimed portion of the design, a second embodiment of the design being a mirror image of the first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a front perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is an oblique perspective view of the refrigerator of FIG. 1 with unclaimed outer portions of the refrigerator removed;

FIG. 4 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a side perspective view thereof, back and bottom views with unclaimed outer portions of the refrigerator removed also showing no claimed portion of the design.

The portions of the article shown in even broken line form no part of the claimed design.

The dash-dot-dash depiction of a rectangular prism in FIGS. 3 - 8 that surrounds the portions of the refrigerator shown in FIGS. 3 - 8 represents the space within an interior of the refrigerator, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 , in which the illustrated portions are positioned.

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D15/86

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