US Patent Issued to THERMO KING on Aug. 25 for "Apparatus comprising a battery" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,260, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to THERMO KING LLC (Minneapolis).

"Apparatus comprising a battery" was invented by Ryan Wayne Schumacher (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising a controller, a load, a battery, and a DC link. The DC link is coupled to the load, couplable to the battery, and couplable to an external power source. The load comprises an electrical component. The controller is configured to: evaluate a component startup criterion relating to whether the electrical component is performing a startup process, evaluate a source capability criterion rela...