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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2023
Abstract Ice, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Ashok Kumar Notaney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd Stevenson, Novato, CA (US);
Larry Allen Mercier, Jr., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
James Anthony Coller, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Andrew James Whalen, Windsor, CA (US);
Nathan Ernst, Dexter, MI (US);
Kayla Curtis, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Guerin Rowland, Milan, MI (US);
Abstract Ice, Inc., Petaluma, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for making clear ice are described. The system may include a housing comprising a plurality of elongate troughs. Each of the plurality of elongate troughs may have at least one flume surface wall in thermal communication with a cooling source while the housing is submerged in a fluid bath. The system may further include at least one fluid intake disposed to provide a flow of fluid to the housing and a means for distributing the flow of fluid from the at least one fluid intake into the plurality of elongate troughs while maintaining a substantially laminar fluid flow and substantially equal fluid pressure along the plurality of elongate troughs while the housing is submerged in the fluid bath and during a freezing operation of the device.