ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,505, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to THERMO KING LLC (Minneapolis).

"Methods and systems for providing predictive energy consumption feedback for powering a transport climate control system using external data" was invented by Philip Lewis Lavrich (Mooresville, N.C.), Mark D. Leasure (Eagan, Minn.), Casey Briscoe (Minnetonka, Minn.), Grant A. Baumgardner (Minneapolis), Ryan Wayne Schumacher (Bloomington, Minn.), Wallace Stephen Hubbard (Chanhassen, Minn.), Panayu Robert Srichai (Minneapolis) and Matthew Srnec (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing energy consumption feedb...