ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,183, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Battery pack, air conditioning system, and method for the same" was invented by Xiaojun Guo (Shanghai), Zehang Yu (Shanghai), Hui Zhai (Shanghai) and Jian Ni (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a battery box, the battery box comprising: a charging and energy storage unit for charging and storing electrical energy using an input voltage supplied to the battery box; a power failure detection unit for detecting a power failure of the input voltage; and a power output switching unit for switching an output based on a...