ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,595, issued on July 29, was assigned to RLMB GROUP LLC (Honolulu).

"Modular mobile treatment and precooling apparatus and systems" was invented by Randall Craig Bowden (Honolulu) and Robert W. Herdeman (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system for treating, precooling, and handling perishable products uses a mobile container enhanced with increased capacity refrigeration and air flow to recirculate functional substances including sanitizers, and ripening management and conditioning agents across the surface of palletized perishable products during the precooling step. Sanitizing substances are dispensed into t...