US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Feb. 10 for "Method of evaluating refrigerant charge within a refrigeration circuit" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,520, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Method of evaluating refrigerant charge within a refrigeration circuit" was invented by Lucas Chapeau (Franqueville Saint Pierre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of evaluating refrigerant charge within a refrigeration circuit. The method includes measuring a quantity of liquid refrigerant within a flash tank of the refrigeration circuit; determining an expected quantity of liquid refrigerant within the flash tank; comparing the expected quantity with the measured quantity of liquid refrigerant within the flash tank; and evaluating the re...