ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,553, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to THERMO KING LLC (Minneapolis).

"Adaptive charge control for transport climate control applications" was invented by Carolyn Anderson (Minneapolis), Noah Lopez (Minneapolis) and Joshua Ramos (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating a rechargeable energy storage source management system (RMS) to power a load while a power system is connected to an external power source are provided. One method includes determining a charger is connected to the external power source and enabled. The method also includes modulating a charger current from the charger to a ...