ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,671, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DANFOSS A/S (Nordborg, Denmark).
"Method for fault tolerant control of a vapour compression system" was invented by Glenn Andreasen (Nordborg, Denmark) and Roozbeh Izadi-Zamanabadi (Sonderborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a vapour compression system (1) is disclosed. The vapour compression system (1) has an ambient temperature sensor (8) arranged to measure an ambient temperature. A time period during which the ambient temperature sensor (8) is unexposed to solar heating is selected. During the selected time period, measurements of the ambient temperature are...