US Patent Issued to Copeland Cold Chain on April 14 for "Monitoring environmental conditions of storage units for vaccines and other climate sensitive products" (Minnesota, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,121, issued on April 14, was assigned to Copeland Cold Chain LP (Kennesaw, Ga.).

"Monitoring environmental conditions of storage units for vaccines and other climate sensitive products" was invented by Scott N. Fricker (Shakopee, Minn.), Niles E. Falasco (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), Ethan M. Hansen (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and David G. Lehtola (Aitkin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of environmental monitoring devices for monitoring one or more environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, oxygen, pressure, etc.) of storage units, such as storage units for vaccines, medication...