ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,156, issued on May 27, was assigned to MEDIPAL HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Delivery unit and delivery system" was invented by Kazunori Nagasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery unit 15 is mounted on a vehicle 21 and is used to deliver the articles accommodated in a storage container 33 filled with a cooling gas. The delivery unit 15 includes a thermometer Se1 that measures a temperature in the storage container 33, a memory unit 53 that memorizes therein data of the measured temperature in chronological order, a quality-data generation unit 55a that generates quality data of articles based on temperature data acquired fr...