ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,248, issued on March 4, was assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colo.).

"Grid interactive micro-distributed refrigerated display case" was invented by Ramin Teimouri Faramarzi (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Sammy Houssainy (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jason David Woods (Boulder, Colo.) and Eric Kozubal (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an improved open vertical display case (OVDC) which utilizes radiant cooling to cool and/or maintain food products at a target temperature. The radiant cooling is performed using a plurality of piping routed through the walls and containing...