Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.

General Electric Company

Christopher George Bissig

Chen Lu

Andrew Reinhard Krause

Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich

Bagawathkumar Chellappan

Martin Christopher Severance

Timothy Allen Hamel

Jarvis Ward

Marc Eric Hottenroth

Rebecca Ann Alvord

Randall Winfield Calmeise

Anthony A Cooper

Justin Daniel Berger

Edward Philip Strauss

Robert H Lewis

Vinayak Reddy

Rita Barksdale

Telema Harry

Bernhard Thomas Klaus

Eric K Watson

Joel A Persinger

David Calvert

Joseph Wimsatt

Sarah Currie

Mary Bellinger

Jackeline Morales-Trice

Amy Elizabeth Pryor Hite

Russell Conrad Grant

Wenkai Yu

Alex Fernando Lobos

A cooking engagement system and methods for providing recipe content to a user are provided. The system includes a cooking appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooking appliance. The interactive assembly includes a display device that presents various content to a user, e.g., recipe content. In one example aspect, a user submits a recipe request. The recipe request is routed to one or more third party recipe content providers. A controller of the interactive assembly obtains recipe content from the recipe content providers and causes a display device of the interactive assembly to present the recipe content to the user.

Cooking engagement system equipped with a recipe application for combining third party recipe content

A system and a method for generated synchronized audible communications are provided. In one aspect, a system includes a suite of appliances, including at least a first and second appliance. Each appliance has a speaker operable to generate one or more audible communications. The system includes one or more controllers that output one or more sound commands that cause the speakers of the appliances to generate their respective audible communications. One or more of the appliances include a proximity device operable to detect whether a user is within a proximity range thereof. In some instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to amplify their audible communications. In other instances, the speakers can generate audible communications to create localization cues for directing a user's attention to a particular appliance.

Appliance suite equipped with a synced sound system

Appliance handle

An apparatus includes a refrigerator door, comprising an inner door material and an outer door material, wherein a portion of the outer door material of the refrigerator is formed into a shape of a dispenser recess. The apparatus also includes a support structure, wherein the support structure is situated behind the dispenser recess of the outer door material and in front of the inner door material, and wherein the support structure facilitates implementation of one or more dispenser features. A refrigerator using the apparatus is also disclosed.

Apparatus for refrigerator dispenser recess integrated with door material

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

Christopher George Bissig