US Patent Issued to CARRIER on June 17 for "Hybridized fuel cell transport refrigeration units" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,479, issued on June 17, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Hybridized fuel cell transport refrigeration units" was invented by Mark Makwinski (Cromwell, Conn.), Bart Antonie van Hassel (Weatogue, Conn.) and Eric Peterson (East Longmeadow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport refrigeration system including: a transport refrigeration unit configured to provide conditioned air to a refrigerated cargo space of a transport container; a fuel cell configured to provide electricity to the transport refrigeration unit; one or more supplemental power sources configured to provide supplemental electricity to ...