ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,952, issued on April 7, was assigned to REEFER AIR FLOW TECHNOLOGIES (PTY) LTD (Germiston, South Africa).

"Baffle assembly for a refrigeration container" was invented by Barry James Hugo (Edenvale, South Africa), Malcolm Caulton Dodd (Claremont, South Africa) and Craig Wayne Osner (Germiston, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baffle blank for a baffle assembly and a method for deploying the baffle assembly in a storage container for manipulating air flow in the container is provided. The baffle blank is made of stiff planar sheet material and has fold lines, cut lines and sulcations arranged to form a base, a deflector ex...