US Patent Issued to Maersk Line on March 17 for "Reefer power control" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,690, issued on March 17, was assigned to Maersk Line A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark).

"Reefer power control" was invented by Morten Rene Baerentz (Liseleje, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a power controller for controlling power to be supplied to at least one reefer container on a container vessel. The power controller is configured to obtain a set temperature for at least one reefer container to be transported by the container vessel. The power controller is also configured to obtain data that indicates an amount of energy available to the container vessel and determine, based on the amount of energy available to the...