US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 29 for "Vehicle configured to detect low refrigerant charge" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,867, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle configured to detect low refrigerant charge" was invented by Rohan Shrivastava (Livonia, Mich.), Changchun Li (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Jan Xu (Canton, Mich.) and Jennifer Helen Chang (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a vehicle configured to detect a low refrigerant charge and a corresponding method. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a vehicle, including: a thermal conditioning system including a compressor and a suction pressure sensor upstream of the compressor; and a con...