US Patent Issued to Atieva on Aug. 5 for "Active management of refrigerant charge between condenser loops" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,142, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Active management of refrigerant charge between condenser loops" was invented by Arash Moharreri (Fremont, Calif.), Balaji Maniam (Fremont, Calif.) and Sai Rajeev Devaragudi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration system comprises: an evaporator having an evaporator inlet and an evaporator outlet; a compressor having (i) a compressor outlet, and (ii) a compressor inlet coupled to the evaporator outlet; a first condenser loop coupled between the compressor outlet and the evaporator inlet, the first condenser loop comprising: a first inlet valv...