ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,073, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to DAIKIN INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and DAIKIN EUROPE N.V. (Ostend, Belgium).

"Safety system and method for constructing air conditioning system" was invented by David Steen (Ostend, Belgium), Kevin Cornelis (Ostend, Belgium), Arne Degrande (Ostend, Belgium), Yuusuke Nakagawa (Ostend, Belgium) and Harshit Tanwar (Ostend, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system for a heat pump system includes a plurality of valve units each having refrigerant pipe portions with control valves, a refrigerant leakage detector, and a casing accommodating the valves and the refrigerant leakage detec...