ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,042, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ember Technologies Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).
"Portable cooler container" was invented by Clayton Alexander (Westlake Village, Calif.), Daren John Leith (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Christopher Thomas Wakeham (Solana Beach, Calif.), Mikko Juhani Timperi (San Marcos, Calif.) and Rahul Mulinti (Westlake Village, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable cooler container is provided, with a payload chamber for one or more temperature sensitive or perishable goods. A cooling unit is disposed in the payload chamber. The cooling unit includes a vessel filled with a cooling material (e.g., dry...