ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,256, issued on June 9, was assigned to KPS GLOBAL LLC (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Accessible cooling environment" was invented by Rahul Sharma (Fort Worth, Texas) and James M. Costanza (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example control system for a temperature controlled environment operates by alternatively executing on-cycles during which the controller controls the compressor to operate in an on-state and off-cycles during which the controller controls the compressor to operate in an off-state. During the off-cycle the control system executes a defrost cycle. To reduce power consumption of the temperature controlled e...