ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,232, issued on May 6, was assigned to B MEDICAL SYSTEM S.A.R.L (Hosingen, Luxembourg).

"Cold storage device" was invented by Jeannot Demuth (Eschdorf, Luxembourg), Vincent Sadler (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium) and Gilles Ries (Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ice-lined cold storage device (10) comprising: a cold storage compartment (15) arranged at an interior of the ice-lined cold storage device; an ice-lining (25a, 25b, 25c, 25d) configured to absorb heat from the interior of the cold-storage device; a cooling circuit (16) configured, when in operation, to remove heat from the ice-lining; an inner liner ...