US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Nov. 11 for "Refrigerant charge management device for heat pump systems" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,672, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Refrigerant charge management device for heat pump systems" was invented by Dhruv Chanakya Hoysall (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a refrigerant charge management device comprising a refrigerant charge vessel enclosing a volume, a movable impervious barrier separating the volume into a first volume and a second volume, a first port disposed in fluid communication with the first volume and configured for fluid connection to a heat pump system, and a second port disposed in fluid communication with the second volume and ...