US Patent Issued to Elemental Machines on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for determining freezer status" (New Jersey, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,183, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Elemental Machines Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for determining freezer status" was invented by Sridhar Iyengar (Salem, N.H.) and Casey Peters (Caldwell, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a time frame for when a freezer having a compressor should be defrosted include the steps of measuring compressor cycling over time, determining a change in compressor cycling over time, and determining from the change in in compressor cycling over time determined a time frame for when the freezer should be defrosted."

The patent was filed on Jan. 11, 2023, under A...