ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,419, issued on May 27, was assigned to Endure Products LLC (Dripping Springs, Texas).
"Green cremation" was invented by Ronald Fremont Twining (Dripping Springs, Texas) and Omar Besim Hakim (Dripping Springs, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for cremating a body. The system includes a box assembly and a vessel. The box assembly is for storing the body or a portion of a body. The box assembly includes a box defining a box cavity, a bottom end, a top end, and at least one side wall extending from the bottom end to the top end. The box assembly also includes an air conditioner disposed in the box cavity. The air conditioner ...