ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,930, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Polysense Solutions Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Cold storage monitoring system and method of use to monitor temperature and utilization" was invented by Matthew Daniel Brian Gale (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system includes monitoring devices monitoring respective refrigerated storage units to measure internal temperature values and door status values representing the door being opened or closed. The devices periodically report the data to a computer server that stores the data in a database in respective database records associated with the monitoring devices respe...