ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,488, issued on June 3, was assigned to Gobi Technologies Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).
"Thermally insulated transport container" was invented by Lawrence Morgan Fowler (Kirkland, Wash.), Peter Maier-Laxhuber (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany), Ralf Schmidt (Freising, Germany) and William Randal Sims (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally insulated transport container for use with an ice battery, having an internal usable volume for freeze-free cooling of temperature-sensitive products placed therein, the usable volume having an outward usable volume portion, an internal cold storage volume sized to receive the ice batt...