US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Aug. 12 for "Refrigerant leak detection using a sensor-reading context analysis" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,678, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Refrigerant leak detection using a sensor-reading context analysis" was invented by Ziyou Xiong (Wethersfield, Conn.), Michael Birnkrant (Wethersfield, Conn.) and Marcin Piech (East Hampton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection assembly operable to detect a refrigerant leak event includes a sensor network and a controller. The sensor network is operable to generate sensor outputs including triggering-sensor (TS) outputs and triggering-sensor context (TSC) outputs. The controller is operable to perform a sensor-reading context analysis on th...