ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,030, issued on March 17, was assigned to Packaging Technology Group LLC (Fall River, Mass.).

"Temperature controlled product shipper" was invented by William C. Blezard (Mattapoisett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature controller shipper for shipping temperature sensitive products. A plurality of individual product boxes contained in an inner mastercase each include a lyophilized product with low thermal mass. The plurality of product boxes each contain a unique PCM thermal dunnage insert occupying the normally empty space within the product box. The PCM insert artificially increases the thermal mass within each prod...