ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,934, issued on May 26, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Method for reducing fuel consumption" was invented by Suzankumar Danaiah Gongate (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a component of a transport refrigeration unit (TRU) of a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining whether an engine parameter value of the vehicle exceeds a predefined level, computing a vehicle parameter value from the engine parameter value if the engine parameter value exceeds the predefined level, obtaining a nominal value of the vehicle parameter value for which the component is rated, de...