US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Oct. 7 for "Transport power generator system" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,540, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Transport power generator system" was invented by Ruud Van Wijk (Noordwijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport refrigeration system includes a transportation refrigeration unit; an energy storage device configured to provide electrical power to the transportation refrigeration unit; and an electric generation device 340 operably connected through a mechanical interface 370 to at least one of a wheel 364 of the transport refrigeration system and a wheel axle 365 of the transport refrigeration system; the mechanical interface includes: ...