ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,628, issued on July 14, was assigned to REP IP AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Transport container for transporting temperature-sensitive goods to be transported, said container comprising container walls" was invented by Nico Ros (Riehen, Switzerland) and Stefan Retzko (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport container for transporting temperature-sensitive goods to be transported, the container including container walls which surround and close off all sides an inner space provided for receiving the goods to be transported. Each container wall has at least one latent-heat storage layer which includes a phase change m...