General Electric Company

Hemachandran Umakanthan

Mark Wayne Wilson

Anand Ganesh Joshi

Gautam Subbarao

Alexander Pinkus Rafalovich

Matthew William Davis

Sanjay Manohar Anikhindi

Anil Kumar Tummala

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Thiruvalan Venkatesan

A refrigerator includes a housing having at least one refrigerator compartment, a door for accessing the at least one refrigerator compartment, and an ice-dispensing assembly. The ice-dispensing assembly includes an insulated housing arranged within the at least one refrigerator compartment, an ice-making device arranged within the insulated housing and configured to produce ice, an ice-storage container arranged within the insulated housing, and a dispenser arranged within the door and communicating with the ice-storage container, wherein the dispenser is configured to transfer ice from the ice-storage container to an external portion of the refrigerator.

Ice-dispensing assembly mounted within a refrigerator compartment

An air treatment system includes a housing defining a chamber, and an ultraviolet lamp positioned within the chamber. The housing further defines an air inlet at a first end portion of the housing and an air outlet at a second end portion of the housing opposing the first end portion. The chamber provides flow communication between the air inlet and the air outlet. At least one ultraviolet lamp is positioned within the chamber. The at least one ultraviolet lamp is positioned about a first axis and includes a first end and a second end spaced with respect to the first end along the first axis. The at least one ultraviolet lamp is configured for facilitating inactivating contaminants within air channeled through the chamber.

Air treatment system

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Tamil Nadu, India

Hemachandran Umakanthan