ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,735, issued on July 14, was assigned to Icebox Heat Pumps Inc. (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of heating and cooling cycle with isochoric heating" was invented by Matthew Stroud (Petaluma, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of a cooling cycle comprises compressing a refrigerant at a first state to a second state, the first state being at a first temperature and a first pressure, the second state being at a second temperature and a second pressure, the refrigerant at the initial state being at a particular bulk density, cooling the refrigerant at the second temperature and the second pressure to a third ...