ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,880, issued on March 18, was assigned to InSoFast LLC (Mitchell, S.D.).

"System and method for insulating an intermodal container" was invented by Edward G. Scherrer (Mitchell, S.D.) and Andrew Robert Scherrer (Mitchell, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermodal container includes a base, a roof, walls extending between the base and the roof, at least one of the walls having a corrugated surface. An insulation for the intermodal container includes a plurality of insulation units, each of the insulation units having a corrugated surface complementary to the corrugated surface of the intermodal container. Frist one of the insu...