ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,579, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Maersk Container Industry A/S (Tinglev, Denmark).

"Refrigeration system and method of determining a state of charge of refrigerant therein" was invented by Georg Patrick Franz Fosel (Tinglev, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of determining a state of charge of refrigerant in a refrigeration system, the refrigeration system having a compressor, an expansion valve, a condenser side for passing refrigerant from the compressor to the expansion valve, and an evaporator side for passing refrigerant from the expansion valve to the compressor. The method comprises determining...