US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Nov. 11 for "Transport refrigeration unit with heat island mitigation" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,304, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Transport refrigeration unit with heat island mitigation" was invented by Bart van Hassel (Weatogue, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transportation refrigeration system including a transportation refrigeration unit configured to maintain a temperature in a refrigerated cargo space and comprising a refrigerant expansion device, a refrigerant heat absorption heat exchanger, a refrigerant compression device, and a refrigerant heat rejection heat exchanger; and a refrigeration augmentation unit comprising a water tank having an outlet, ...