ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,525, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hill Phoenix Inc. (Conyers, Ga.).

"Refrigeration system with temperature monitoring" was invented by Adrian Rodriguez (Santa Clarita, Calif.), Francisco Flores (Valencia, Calif.), Naresh Kumar Krishnamoorthy (Kerala, India) and Shobin Balakrishnan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining if a product in a refrigerated display case has likely spoiled. The method can include: obtaining, from one or more thermal cameras installed in a refrigerated case, multiple images of the ...