ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,855, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Remote monitoring of perishable trade items in environmentally-controlled storage containers" was invented by Maximilian Ralph Peter von und zu Liechtenstein (Douglas, Isle of Man) and Erich Linus Birchler (Bottighofen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is described herein related to remote monitoring of perishable trade items in environmentally-controlled storage containers. Relevant changes in the container environment are detected through various sensors-based event detectors. A timer serves to trigger a plurality of ...